This paper discloses a method for preparing and applying composite hard carbon materials based on
crop straw and
coal coking by-products, relating to the field of
new energy materials technology. The method uses
crop straw and
coal tar (a
coal coking by-product) as raw materials. The
crop straw is pre-carbonized in air to retain its natural three-dimensional tubular framework and form a
porous network, then mixed and impregnated with liquid
coal tar, and finally carbonized at high temperature in an
inert atmosphere. The liquid
coal tar deeply penetrates the pores of the straw and transforms into dense amorphous
graphite domains at high temperature, physically filling and stitching the open macropores of the straw, transforming the loose open pores into
sodium-storing closed pores, and reshaping it into a dense, robust 3D interconnected bulk structure. This invention abandons the traditional and cumbersome acid-base
impurity removal and pore-forming process. It utilizes the dense
coating and in-situ reinforcement of liquid
coal tar to reduce the specific surface area of the material and improve the first coulombic efficiency and compaction density. It effectively solves the pain points of low first efficiency and poor
energy density of traditional
biomass hard carbon. The preparation process is simple,
environmentally friendly, and low in cost, and it is easy to realize the large-scale industrialization of
sodium-
ion battery
anode materials.