Highly flexible multilayer MXene hollow carbon nanofibers confined with Fe3C particles for high-performance lithium-ion batteries

Abstract

Designing electrode structures with excellent mechanical properties, fast electrochemical kinetics and stability is important for the development of flexible wearable electrodes. In this paper, a hollow carbon nanofiber composite of Ti3C2Tx MXene and Fe3C nanoparticles is designed. The synergistic effect of Ti3C2Tx MXene and Fe3C nanoparticles forms a strong conductive channel with the hollow channel to form a dual conductive channel, which plays an important role in the preparation of high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Benefiting from the advantages of the above structure, the Fe3C@MXene/hollow multichannel carbon fibers (Fe3C@MXene/HMCFs) electrodes at a current density of 0.2 A/g achieve an initial capacity of 1294 mA h g−1 and a high reversible capacity of 831 mA h g−1 after 200 turns of charge/discharge cycles.