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Improving the intrinsic electronic conductivity of NiMoO4 anodes by phosphorous doping for high lithium storage

Show Author's Information Luchao Yue1,2,  Chaoqun Ma3,  Shihai Yan3,  Zhenguo Wu1,  Wenxi Zhao2,  Qian Liu2( ),  Yonglan Luo2,  Benhe Zhong1,  Fang Zhang4,  Yang Liu5,  Abdulmohsen Ali Alshehri6,  Khalid Ahmed Alzahrani6,  Xiaodong Guo1( ),  Xuping Sun2( )
School of Chemical Engineering Sichuan UniversityChengdu 610065 China
Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu 610054 China
College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Qingdao Agricultural UniversityQingdao 266109 China
National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology No. 28 East Jiang Chuan Road, Shanghai 200241 China
School of Materials Science and Engineering Henan Normal UniversityXinxiang 453007 China
Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University P.O. Box 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia
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Heteroatom doping is one of the most promising strategies toward regulating intrinsically sluggish electronic conductivity and kinetic reaction of transition metal oxides for enhancing their lithium storage. Herein, we designed phosphorus-doped NiMoO4 nanorods (P-NiMoO4) by using a facile hydrothermal method and subsequent low-temperature phosphorization treatment. Phosphorus doping played an indispensable role in significantly improving electronic conductivity and the Li+ diffusion kinetics of NiMoO4 materials. Experimental investigation and density functional theory calculation demonstrated that phosphorus doping can expand the interplanar spacing and alter electronic structures of NiMoO4 nanorods. Meanwhile, the introduced phosphorus dopant can generate some oxygen vacancies on the surface of NiMoO4, which can accelerate Li+ diffusion kinetics and provide more active site for lithium storage. As excepted, P-NiMoO4 electrode delivered a high specific capacity (1, 130 mAh·g−1 at 100 mA·g−1 after 100 cycles), outstanding cycling durability (945 mAh·g−1 at 500 mA·g−1 over 200 cycles), and impressive rate performance (640 mAh·g−1 at 2, 000 mA·g−1) for lithium ion batteries (LIBs). This work could provide a potential strategy for improving intrinsic conductivity of transition metal oxides as high-performance anodes for LIBs.


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Improving the intrinsic electronic conductivity of NiMoO4 anodes by phosphorous doping for high lithium storage

Show Author's information Luchao Yue1,2, Chaoqun Ma3, Shihai Yan3, Zhenguo Wu1, Wenxi Zhao2, Qian Liu2( ), Yonglan Luo2, Benhe Zhong1, Fang Zhang4, Yang Liu5, Abdulmohsen Ali Alshehri6, Khalid Ahmed Alzahrani6, Xiaodong Guo1( ), Xuping Sun2( )
School of Chemical Engineering Sichuan UniversityChengdu 610065 China
Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu 610054 China
College of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Qingdao Agricultural UniversityQingdao 266109 China
National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology No. 28 East Jiang Chuan Road, Shanghai 200241 China
School of Materials Science and Engineering Henan Normal UniversityXinxiang 453007 China
Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University P.O. Box 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Heteroatom doping is one of the most promising strategies toward regulating intrinsically sluggish electronic conductivity and kinetic reaction of transition metal oxides for enhancing their lithium storage. Herein, we designed phosphorus-doped NiMoO4 nanorods (P-NiMoO4) by using a facile hydrothermal method and subsequent low-temperature phosphorization treatment. Phosphorus doping played an indispensable role in significantly improving electronic conductivity and the Li+ diffusion kinetics of NiMoO4 materials. Experimental investigation and density functional theory calculation demonstrated that phosphorus doping can expand the interplanar spacing and alter electronic structures of NiMoO4 nanorods. Meanwhile, the introduced phosphorus dopant can generate some oxygen vacancies on the surface of NiMoO4, which can accelerate Li+ diffusion kinetics and provide more active site for lithium storage. As excepted, P-NiMoO4 electrode delivered a high specific capacity (1, 130 mAh·g−1 at 100 mA·g−1 after 100 cycles), outstanding cycling durability (945 mAh·g−1 at 500 mA·g−1 over 200 cycles), and impressive rate performance (640 mAh·g−1 at 2, 000 mA·g−1) for lithium ion batteries (LIBs). This work could provide a potential strategy for improving intrinsic conductivity of transition metal oxides as high-performance anodes for LIBs.

Keywords: anode, lithium ion batteries, phosphorus doping, NiMoO4

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Received: 06 February 2021
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Published: 24 April 2021
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21878195 and U20A20145), the Scientific and technological achievement transformation project of Sichuan Science and Technology Department (No. 21ZHSF0111), and Shanghai Scientific and Technological Innovation Project (No. 18JC1410604).

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