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Fe3O4-nanoparticle-decorated TiO2 nanofiber hierarchical heterostructures with improved lithium-ion battery performance over wide temperature range

Show Author's Information Hengguo Wang1,  Guangsheng Wang2,  Shuang Yuan3,  Delong Ma3,  Yang Li2,  Yu Zhang2( )
Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of EducationSchool of Chemistry and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijing100191China
School of Materials Science and EngineeringChangchun University of Science and TechnologyChangchun130022China
State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource UtilizationChangchun Institute of Applied ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesChangchun130022China
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electrochemical performance, lithium-ion batteries, hierarchical heterostructures, wide temperature range
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A facile strategy was designed for the fabrication of Fe3O4-nanoparticle-decorated TiO2 nanofiber hierarchical heterostructures (FTHs) by combining the versatility of the electrospinning technique and the hydrothermal growth method. The hierarchical architecture of Fe3O4 nanoparticles decorated on TiO2 nanofibers enables the successful integration of the binary composite into batteries to address structural stability and low capacity. In the resulting unique architecture of FTHs, the 1D heterostructures relieve the strain caused by severe volume changes of Fe3O4 during numerous charge-discharge cycles, and thus suppress the degradation of the electrode material. As a result, FTHs show excellent performance including higher reversible capacity, excellent cycle life, and good rate performance over a wide temperature range owing to the synergistic effect of the binary composition of TiO2 and Fe3O4 and the unique features of the hierarchical nanofibers.


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Fe3O4-nanoparticle-decorated TiO2 nanofiber hierarchical heterostructures with improved lithium-ion battery performance over wide temperature range

Show Author's information Hengguo Wang1, Guangsheng Wang2, Shuang Yuan3, Delong Ma3, Yang Li2, Yu Zhang2( )
Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of EducationSchool of Chemistry and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijing100191China
School of Materials Science and EngineeringChangchun University of Science and TechnologyChangchun130022China
State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource UtilizationChangchun Institute of Applied ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesChangchun130022China

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A facile strategy was designed for the fabrication of Fe3O4-nanoparticle-decorated TiO2 nanofiber hierarchical heterostructures (FTHs) by combining the versatility of the electrospinning technique and the hydrothermal growth method. The hierarchical architecture of Fe3O4 nanoparticles decorated on TiO2 nanofibers enables the successful integration of the binary composite into batteries to address structural stability and low capacity. In the resulting unique architecture of FTHs, the 1D heterostructures relieve the strain caused by severe volume changes of Fe3O4 during numerous charge-discharge cycles, and thus suppress the degradation of the electrode material. As a result, FTHs show excellent performance including higher reversible capacity, excellent cycle life, and good rate performance over a wide temperature range owing to the synergistic effect of the binary composition of TiO2 and Fe3O4 and the unique features of the hierarchical nanofibers.

Keywords: electrochemical performance, lithium-ion batteries, hierarchical heterostructures, wide temperature range

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Received: 04 October 2014
Revised: 10 November 2014
Accepted: 24 November 2014
Published: 26 March 2015
Issue date: May 2015

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This work is financially supported by the fundamental research funds for the central universities, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51372007 and 21301014).

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