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Well-designed hollow and porous Co3O4 microspheres used as an anode for Li-ion battery

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Hollow and porous structures grant fantastic physicochemical properties and widespread application in electrochemical energy storage. Here, hollow/porous Co3O4 nanospheres were synthesized using carbon spheres as the sacrificial templates and a metal-organic framework (MOF)–assisted strategy by a simple immersion method, followed by an annealing treatment in air. By virtue of their structure, the products exhibited excellent electrochemical performance when evaluated as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Specifically, it delivered a high discharge reversible specific capacity of ~ 550 mA h g−1 after 520 cycles at the current density of 100 mA g−1; it also exhibits excellent cycling stability and rate capability.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21671001 and 21571002), the Scientific Research Foundation of Anhui Agricultural University (Grant No. Wd2018-05), the Key Research Project of Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Provincial Universities (Grant No. KJ2019A0216 and KJ2018A0161), and Provincial Undergraduate Training Programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Anhui Agriculture University (201710364062).

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    Chunyan Zhang, Fei Ke, Hang Xiao, Hui Zhang & Yan Tian

  2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, People’s Republic of China

    Yuhua Shen

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Zhang, C., Ke, F., Xiao, H. et al. Well-designed hollow and porous Co3O4 microspheres used as an anode for Li-ion battery. J Solid State Electrochem 23, 2477–2482 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-019-04333-2

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