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Li2MnSiO4/carbon nanofiber cathodes for Li-ion batteries

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Pure single-phase Li2MnSiO4 nanoparticle-embedded carbon nanofibers have been prepared for the first time via a simple sol-gel and electrospinning technique. They exhibit an improved electrochemical performance over conventional carbon-coated Li2MnSiO4 nanoparticle electrodes, including a high discharge capacity of ∼200 mAh g−1, at a C/20 rate, with the retention of 77 % over 20 cycles and a 1.6-fold higher discharge capacity at a 1 C rate.

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Acknowledgment

This work was financially supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through Grant No. K20704000003TA050000310, the Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program provided by Ministry of Science, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and Future Planning in 2013, the International Cooperation program of the Korea Insitute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning(KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (No. 2011 T100100369).

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    Hyunjung Park & Ungyu Paik

  2. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791, South Korea

    Taeseup Song

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Taeseup Song, Rajesh Tripathi & Linda F. Nazar

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Park, H., Song, T., Tripathi, R. et al. Li2MnSiO4/carbon nanofiber cathodes for Li-ion batteries. Ionics 20, 1351–1359 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-014-1105-4

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