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WASTE MANAGEMENT
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages 147-152Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.04.010
Keywords
Recycled tetrahedral CuCl; Waste Cu scraps; Resource recovery; Lithium ion battery; Circular economy
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51363011]
- 46th Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry in China [6488-20130039]
- 19th Young Academic and Technical Leaders of Yunnan Province in China
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The wide applications of metal Cu inevitably resulted in a large quantity of waste Cu materials. In order to recover the useful Cu under the mild conditions and reduce the environmental emission, waste Cu scraps were recycled in the form of CuCl powders with high economic value added (EVA) via the facile hydrothermal route. The recycled CuCl powders were characterized in terms of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The results suggested that the recycled CuCl powders consisted of many regular tetrahedron-like micro-particles. Furthermore, in order to reduce the cost of lithium ion battery (LIB) anode and build the connection of waste Cu scraps and LIB, the recycled CuCl powders were evaluated as the anode active material of LIB. As expected, the reversible discharge capacity was about 171.8 mAh/g at 2.0 C even after 50 cycles, implying the satisfactory cycle stability. Clearly, the satisfactory results may open a new avenue to develop the circular economy and the sustainable energy industry, which would be very important in terms of both the resource recovery and the environmental protection. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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