The invention discloses a
nitrogen-doped
porous carbon sphere and cobaltous
oxide nano-composite
anode material based on
chitosan and derivatives thereof and a preparation method thereof and belongs to the fields of
electrochemistry and
new energy resource materials. According to the
nitrogen-doped
porous carbon sphere and cobaltous
oxide nano-composite
anode material based on the
chitosan and the derivatives thereof and the preparation method thereof, firstly the
chitosan and the derivatives thereof are taken as
carbon source and
nitrogen source precursors, a hard template
carbonization method is adopted to prepare nitrogen-doped
porous carbon spheres; then a mild hydrothermal method is adopted to load cobaltous
oxide nano particles to the nitrogen-doped porous carbon spheres, and then the nitrogen-doped porous carbon sphere and cobaltous oxide nano-
composite material is obtained. The material synthesizes the structural features of the nitrogen-doped porous carbon spheres and the small-size effect advantages of the cobaltous oxide nano particles, and due to the expression of the synergistic effect of the nitrogen-doped porous carbon spheres and the cobaltous oxide nano particles, the
prepared material shows higher reversible specific capacity, better
cycling stability and more excellent large rate
discharge performance than a commercial
graphite material when used as a
lithium ion battery
anode material. The method is strong in
operability, preparation conditions are mild, the requirement for equipment is not rigorous, and the preparation method is suitable for industrial production; the nitrogen-doped porous carbon sphere and cobaltous oxide nano-
composite material prepared by the method has potential application value in
electrochemistry fields including
lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors and the like.