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Effect of alloying on the electrochemical performance of Sb and Sn deposits as an anode material for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries

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Herein, we report the electrochemical performance of galvanostatically electrodeposited antimony, tin, and their binary alloy antimony-tin as anode materials for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. The antimony-tin anodes deliver an initial capacity of 820 and 686 mAh g−1, with a stable capacity retention of ~ 560 and ~ 400 mAh g−1 for 50 cycles, in lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, respectively. Significant capacity fade observed in individual metal anodes during cycling is due to large volume change, which is addressed to a certain extent by implementing an intermetallic antimony-tin alloy anode. Besides, the inclusion of carbon nanotube in binary alloy to synthesis antimony-tin-carbon nanotube nanocomposite significantly improves the capacities to ~ 600 and ~ 440 mAh g−1 for lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery, respectively, over 50 cycles. The improvement in the capacity and cycling stability of the antimony-tin-carbon nanotube nanocomposite electrode is ascribed to the increase in conductivity, structural stability, and controlled morphology growth.

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Liju Elias acknowledges the National Postdoctoral Fellowship (N-PDF, File No. PDF/2017/000383) scheme of SERB (DST, Govt. of India), and Madhushri acknowledges DST-INSPIRE (code: IF180708). SG acknowledges the UKIERI program under grant no. DST/INT/UK/P-173/2017, Govt. of India, for fellowships. Surendra K. Martha acknowledges DST-SERB (Sanction Order: CRG/2018/003543), Govt. of India, for financial assistance to this work. We thank the FESEM facility (under DST-FIST project (SR/FST/ETI421/2016)) MSME Department, IIT Hyderabad for the microscopy.

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Elias, L., Bhar, M., Ghosh, S. et al. Effect of alloying on the electrochemical performance of Sb and Sn deposits as an anode material for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Ionics 28, 2759–2768 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-022-04539-x

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