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Porous CoP/C@MCNTs hybrid composite derived from metal–organic frameworks for high-performance lithium-ion batteries

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Transitional metal phosphides (TMPs) have been attracted much attention as potential anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, due to their high theoretical capacity, good thermal stability and low cost. In this work, a rational design of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MCNTs) modified porous CoP/carbon composite (CoP/C@MCNTs) has been realized using metal–organic framework as templates. The CoP/C@MCNTs hybrids with small CoP nanoparticles embed into the three-dimensional carbon skeleton are well incorporated with MCNTs. Owing to their unique architecture, the as-prepared CoP/C@MCNTs composite exhibits promising lithium storage performance with a reversible capacity of 547.5 mAh g−1 at a current density of 500 mA g−1 after 200 cycles and a discharge capacity of 290.2 mAh g−1 can still be maintained at a high current density of 3000 mA g−1. We believe that the interesting strategy for synthetic method in this work can open up a way to design other TMPs-based anode materials.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11705015), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Educational Department (No. 15KJA430001), Foundation of Jiangsu Science and Technology Department (Grant No. BA2016041), Science and Technology Plan Project of Suzhou (No. SYG201738 and SZS201710) and Scientific Research Foundation of University (No. XZ1628).

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  1. Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, 215500, China

    Guanghua Jiao, Ying Gu, Jian Wang, Dajun Wu, Shi Tao, Yushen Liu & Bin Qian

  2. College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China

    Guanghua Jiao & Bin Qian

  3. Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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  4. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Wangsheng Chu

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Jiao, G., Gu, Y., Wang, J. et al. Porous CoP/C@MCNTs hybrid composite derived from metal–organic frameworks for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. J Mater Sci 54, 3273–3283 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-018-3064-z

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