Autogenic reactions for preparing carbon-encapsulated, nanoparticulate TiO2 electrodes for lithium-ion batteries
β Scribed by Vilas G. Pol; Sun-Ho Kang; Jose M. Calderon-Moreno; Christopher S. Johnson; Michael M. Thackeray
- Book ID
- 104026055
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 791 KB
- Volume
- 195
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-7753
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β¦ Synopsis
We report an anhydrous, autogenic technique for synthesizing electronically interconnected, carbonencapsulated, nanoparticulate anatase anode materials (TiO 2 -C) for lithium-ion batteries. The TiO 2 -C nanoparticles provide a reversible capacity of βΌ200 mAh g -1 , which exceeds the theoretical capacity of the commercially attractive spinel anode, Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 (175 mAh g -1 ) and is competitive with the capacity reported for other TiO 2 products. The processing method is extremely versatile and has implications for preparing, in a single step, a wide variety of electrochemically active compounds that are coated, in situ, with carbon.
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UK) [\*\*] P.G.B. and C.P.G. are indebted to the EPSRC including SUPERGEN and the programme grant "Nanoionics" for financial support and to EaStCHEM for a studentship for Y.R. C.P.G. and F.P. thank Dr. F. Blanc for help with the NMR spectroscopy.
## Abstract The increasing demand for portable energy has generated significant research interest in nanostructured electrode materials, because of their large interfacial contact area with the electrolyte and short path lengths for Li ion transport. To date, titanium dioxide (TiO~2~) has been wide