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

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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 °C 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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Acknowledgements

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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  2. Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), Nanjing, 210009, China

    Yufei Zhang, Jun Yang, Wei Huang & Xiaochen Dong

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Yufei Zhang, Huanwen Wang, Jun Yang, Haosen Fan, Yu Zhang, Zhengfei Dai, Yun Zheng & Qingyu Yan

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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 Res. 10, 4266–4273 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1582-7

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