Recycling of Plastic Wastes for the Mass Production of Yolk–Shell-Nanostructured Co3O4@C for Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Facing the ever-increasing production of municipal plastics, great efforts have been made to recycle plastic waste into high-value-added products. As the main components of plastic wastes, polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), and polystyrene (PS) are uncharred polymers that are difficult to carbonize under normal conditions. To address this issue, transition-metal catalysts (Co 3 O 4 ) were introduced to carbonize plastic waste with high carbon yields. Herein, mixed-waste plastics (PP/PE/PS) were carbonized into yolk–shell-structured (YSS) Co 3 O 4 @C nanomaterials with a high yield of 49 wt %. A high capacity of 1066 mAh g –1 was achieved at 0.1 A g –1 after 100 cycles in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Moreover, galvanostatic intermittent titration technique results estimated that the YSS Co 3 O 4 @C possessed a higher Li + diffusion coefficient, ensuring improved cycling stability and rate performance. The present strategy not only provides a potential approach for recycling waste plastics into high-value carbon materials but also shows the possibility for the mass production of high-performance nanosized anode materials for LIBs in a commercial manner.
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Li and colleagues prepared yolk-shell structured Co3O4@C nanomaterials with a high carbon yield of 49 wt% using mixed plastics as the carbon source and Co3O4 as catalyst.
“Li and colleagues proposed a yolk-shell structure (YSS) approach.Using mixed plastics as the carbon source and catalyzed by transition metal Co 3 O 4 , they successfully prepared yolk-shell structured Co 3 O 4 @C nanomaterials with a high carbon yield of 49 wt% [126] .”
From Functional carbon materials from waste plastics: synthesis and applications (2025) · cites this paper as [126]
The yolk-shell structured Co3O4@C material demonstrated excellent electrochemical performance as a lithium-ion battery anode: an initial discharge capacity of 1,190 mAh/g (coulombic efficiency 75.7%), maintaining a reversible capacity of 1,066 mAh/g after 100 cycles at 0.1 A/g.
“This material demonstrated excellent electrochemical performance as a lithium-ion battery anode: an initial discharge capacity of 1,190 mAh/g (coulombic efficiency 75.7%), maintaining a reversible capacity of 1,066 mAh/g after 100 cycles at 0.1 A/g.”
From Functional carbon materials from waste plastics: synthesis and applications (2025) · cites this paper as [126]
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- Authors
- Li, J., Dou, F., Gong, J., Gao, Y., Hua, Y., Sielicki, K., Zhang, D., Mijowska, E., & Chen, X.
- Affiliations
- West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (PL)
- Shanghai University (CN)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Shenyang University of Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Dengsong
- Chen, Xuecheng
- Venue
- ACS Applied Nano Materials
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2023-01-12
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1171-1180
- ISSN
- 2574-0970 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4315777012
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- 27
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- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 5
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- Funders
- Narodowe Centrum Nauki (UMO-2020/39/B/ST8/02937)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advancements in Battery Materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Extraction and Separation Processes
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Keywords
- plastic recycling, yolk-shell nanostructures, lithium-ion battery anodes, polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, transition metal catalysts, carbonization, lithium diffusion coefficient, cycling stability, rate capability, mass production
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