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Hydrogenated vanadium oxides as an advanced anode material in lithium ion batteries

Show Author's Information Yufei Zhang1,2,3,§,  Huanwen Wang3,§,  Jun Yang2,3,  Haosen Fan3,  Yu Zhang3,  Zhengfei Dai3,  Yun Zheng3,  Wei Huang2( ),  Xiaochen Dong2( ),  Qingyu Yan3( )
College of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringInner Mongolia UniversityHohhot010021China
Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM)Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM)Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech)Nanjing210009China
School of Materials Science and EngineeringNanyang Technological UniversitySingapore639798Singapore

§Yufei Zhang and Huanwen Wang contributed equally to this work.

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vanadium oxides, hydrogenation, 3D structure, rechargeable lithium ion battery (LIB) anode
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Zhang Y, Wang H, Yang J, et al. Hydrogenated vanadium oxides as an advanced anode material in lithium ion batteries. Nano Research, 2017, 10(12): 4266-4273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1582-7
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Current research on vanadium oxides in lithium ion batteries (LIBs) considers them as cathode materials, whereas they are rarely studied for use as anodes in LIBs because of their low electrical conductivity and rapid capacity fading. In this work, hydrogenated vanadium oxide nanoneedles were prepared and incorporated into freeze-dried graphene foam. The hydrogenated vanadium oxides show greatly improved charge-transfer kinetics, which lead to excellent electrochemical properties. When tested as anode materials (0.005–3.0 V vs. Li/Li+) in LIBs, the sample activated at 600 ℃ exhibits high specific capacity (~941 mA·h·g-1 at 100 mA·g-1) and high-rate capability (~504 mA·h·g-1 at 5 A·g-1), as well as excellent cycling performance (~285 mA·h·g-1 in the 1, 000th cycle at 5 A·g-1). These results demonstrate the promising application of vanadium oxides as anodes in LIBs.


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Hydrogenated vanadium oxides as an advanced anode material in lithium ion batteries

Show Author's information Yufei Zhang1,2,3,§, Huanwen Wang3,§, Jun Yang2,3, Haosen Fan3, Yu Zhang3, Zhengfei Dai3, Yun Zheng3, Wei Huang2( ), Xiaochen Dong2( ), Qingyu Yan3( )
College of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringInner Mongolia UniversityHohhot010021China
Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM)Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM)Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech)Nanjing210009China
School of Materials Science and EngineeringNanyang Technological UniversitySingapore639798Singapore

§Yufei Zhang and Huanwen Wang contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Current research on vanadium oxides in lithium ion batteries (LIBs) considers them as cathode materials, whereas they are rarely studied for use as anodes in LIBs because of their low electrical conductivity and rapid capacity fading. In this work, hydrogenated vanadium oxide nanoneedles were prepared and incorporated into freeze-dried graphene foam. The hydrogenated vanadium oxides show greatly improved charge-transfer kinetics, which lead to excellent electrochemical properties. When tested as anode materials (0.005–3.0 V vs. Li/Li+) in LIBs, the sample activated at 600 ℃ exhibits high specific capacity (~941 mA·h·g-1 at 100 mA·g-1) and high-rate capability (~504 mA·h·g-1 at 5 A·g-1), as well as excellent cycling performance (~285 mA·h·g-1 in the 1, 000th cycle at 5 A·g-1). These results demonstrate the promising application of vanadium oxides as anodes in LIBs.

Keywords: vanadium oxides, hydrogenation, 3D structure, rechargeable lithium ion battery (LIB) anode

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Received: 08 December 2016
Revised: 06 March 2017
Accepted: 12 March 2017
Published: 15 July 2017
Issue date: December 2017

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The project was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61525402, 5161101159), Key University Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province (No. 15KJA430006), QingLan Project and the program of China Scholarships Council (No. 201506810014). We gratefully acknowledge Singapore MOE AcRF Tier 1 grants 2016-T1-002-065, RG113/15, Singapore A*STAR Pharos program SERC 1527200022.

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