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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Orthorhombic LiMnO2 Nano-Particles and LiMnO2 Nanorods and Comparison of their Electrochemical Performances

Show Author's Information Xiaoling Xiao1,  Li Wang2,  Dingsheng Wang1,  Xiangming He2,  Qing Peng1,  Yadong Li1,3( )
Department of ChemistryTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy TechnologyTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine ProcessingTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
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electrochemical performance, hydrothermal synthesis, nanorods, LiMnO2 nanoparticles, one-dimensional nanomaterial
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Xiao X, Wang L, Wang D, et al. Hydrothermal Synthesis of Orthorhombic LiMnO2 Nano-Particles and LiMnO2 Nanorods and Comparison of their Electrochemical Performances. Nano Research, 2009, 2(12): 923-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-009-9094-8
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Orthorhombic LiMnO2 nanoparticles and LiMnO2 nanorods have been synthesized by hydrothermal methods. LiMnO2 nanoparticles were synthesized by simple one-step hydrothermal method. To obtain rod-like LiMnO2, γ-MnOOH nanorods were first synthesized and then the H+ ions were completely replaced by Li+ resulting in LiMnO2 nanorods. Their electrochemical performances were thoroughly investigated by galvanostatic tests. Although the LiMnO2 nanoparticles have smaller size than LiMnO2 nanorods, the latter exhibited higher discharge capacity and better cyclability. For example, the discharge capacities of LiMnO2 nanorods reached 200 mA·h/g over many cycles and remained above 180 mA·h/g after 30 cycles. However, the maximum capacity of LiMnO2 nanoparticles was only 170 mA·h/g and quickly decreased to 110 mA·h/g after 30 cycles. Nanorods with one-dimensional electronic pathways favor the transport of electrons along the length direction and accommodate volume changes resulting from charge/discharge processes. Thus the morphology of LiMnO2 may play an important role in electrochemical performance.


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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Orthorhombic LiMnO2 Nano-Particles and LiMnO2 Nanorods and Comparison of their Electrochemical Performances

Show Author's information Xiaoling Xiao1, Li Wang2, Dingsheng Wang1, Xiangming He2, Qing Peng1, Yadong Li1,3( )
Department of ChemistryTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy TechnologyTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine ProcessingTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China

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Orthorhombic LiMnO2 nanoparticles and LiMnO2 nanorods have been synthesized by hydrothermal methods. LiMnO2 nanoparticles were synthesized by simple one-step hydrothermal method. To obtain rod-like LiMnO2, γ-MnOOH nanorods were first synthesized and then the H+ ions were completely replaced by Li+ resulting in LiMnO2 nanorods. Their electrochemical performances were thoroughly investigated by galvanostatic tests. Although the LiMnO2 nanoparticles have smaller size than LiMnO2 nanorods, the latter exhibited higher discharge capacity and better cyclability. For example, the discharge capacities of LiMnO2 nanorods reached 200 mA·h/g over many cycles and remained above 180 mA·h/g after 30 cycles. However, the maximum capacity of LiMnO2 nanoparticles was only 170 mA·h/g and quickly decreased to 110 mA·h/g after 30 cycles. Nanorods with one-dimensional electronic pathways favor the transport of electrons along the length direction and accommodate volume changes resulting from charge/discharge processes. Thus the morphology of LiMnO2 may play an important role in electrochemical performance.

Keywords: electrochemical performance, hydrothermal synthesis, nanorods, LiMnO2 nanoparticles, one-dimensional nanomaterial

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Received: 19 August 2009
Revised: 12 October 2009
Accepted: 12 October 2009
Published: 01 December 2009
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90606006), and the State Key Project of Fundamental Research for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (No. 2006CB932300).

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