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Nano Research 2014, 7(7): 1073-1082 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0470-7
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Ultralong-life and high-rate web-like Li4Ti5O12 anode for high-performance flexible lithium-ion batteries

Show Author's Information Xianfu Wang1,2,  Bin Liu2,  Xiaojuan Hou2,  Qiufan Wang2,  Wenwu Li2,  Di Chen2,  Guozhen Shen1( )
State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and MicrostructuresInstitution of SemiconductorsChinese Academy of ScienceBeijing100083China
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic InformationHuazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)Wuhan430074China
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Wang X, Liu B, Hou X, et al. Ultralong-life and high-rate web-like Li4Ti5O12 anode for high-performance flexible lithium-ion batteries. Nano Research, 2014, 7(7): 1073-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-014-0470-7
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Flexible lithium ion batteries (LIBs) have recently attracted increasing attention as they show unique promising advantages, such as flexibility, shape diversity, and light weight. Similar to conventional LIBs, flexible LIBs with long cycle life and high-rate performance are very important for applications of high performance flexible electronics. Herein, we report a three-dimensional (3D) web-like binder-free Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) anode assembled from numerous 1D nanowires exhibiting excellent cycling performance with high capacities of 153 and 115 mA·h·g−1 after 5, 000 cycles at 2 C and 20 C, respectively, and excellent rate property with a capacity of 103 mA·h·g−1 even at a very high current rate of 80 C. Surprisingly, a flexible full battery assembled from the web-like LTO nanostructure and LiMn2O4 (LMO) nanorods exhibited a high capacity of 125 mA·h·g−1 at high current rate of 20 C, and showed excellent flexibility with little performance degradation even in seriously bent states.


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Ultralong-life and high-rate web-like Li4Ti5O12 anode for high-performance flexible lithium-ion batteries

Show Author's information Xianfu Wang1,2, Bin Liu2, Xiaojuan Hou2, Qiufan Wang2, Wenwu Li2, Di Chen2, Guozhen Shen1( )
State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and MicrostructuresInstitution of SemiconductorsChinese Academy of ScienceBeijing100083China
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic InformationHuazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)Wuhan430074China

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Flexible lithium ion batteries (LIBs) have recently attracted increasing attention as they show unique promising advantages, such as flexibility, shape diversity, and light weight. Similar to conventional LIBs, flexible LIBs with long cycle life and high-rate performance are very important for applications of high performance flexible electronics. Herein, we report a three-dimensional (3D) web-like binder-free Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) anode assembled from numerous 1D nanowires exhibiting excellent cycling performance with high capacities of 153 and 115 mA·h·g−1 after 5, 000 cycles at 2 C and 20 C, respectively, and excellent rate property with a capacity of 103 mA·h·g−1 even at a very high current rate of 80 C. Surprisingly, a flexible full battery assembled from the web-like LTO nanostructure and LiMn2O4 (LMO) nanorods exhibited a high capacity of 125 mA·h·g−1 at high current rate of 20 C, and showed excellent flexibility with little performance degradation even in seriously bent states.

Keywords: ultralong-life, high-rate, web-like Li4Ti5O12 anode, flexible batteries

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Received: 19 February 2014
Revised: 01 April 2014
Accepted: 03 April 2014
Published: 04 June 2014
Issue date: July 2014

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support from the National Natural Science Foundation (Nos.91123008 and 61377033),the 973 Program of China (No.2011CB933300),the Program for New Century Excellent Talents of the University in China (Grant No.NCET-11-0179),the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.HUST:2013NY013) and Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau (No.20122497).

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