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Facile fabrication of selenium (Se) nanowires for enhanced lithium storage in Li-Se battery

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A cost-effective facile approach has been developed to prepare Se nanowires in anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanochannels by a mechanical injection method, which enables injection of molten Se into the AAO template to form nanowires during solidification. The as-synthesized Se nanowires display well crystallized as a single phase with a hexagonal structure. In addition, thermal stability and electrochemical properties of Se nanowires were presented and discussed in detail. It was found that the Se nanowires used as a cathode material of Li-Se battery displayed enhanced chemical reaction processes with lithium ions, with a higher storage capacity of 1425.6 mAh g−1 compared with the capacity of bulk Se cathode with 454 mAh g−1 at a current density of 150 mA g−1. The current method of synthesizing nanowires is feasible for other pure elements and their compounds with relatively lower melting points (<650 °C).

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51201117, 51104121), the Major State Basic Research Development Program (973 Program) (No. 2012CB722701), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. MCF20140123), the Scientific Research Fund of Wuhan Textile University, and the Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student granted by Ministry of Education of China (No. 1343-71134001002).

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    Chang Wang, Qing Hu, Yao Wei, Dong Fang & Weilin Xu

  2. Department of Chemistry and Physics, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, 28301, USA

    Zhiping Luo

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Wang, C., Hu, Q., Wei, Y. et al. Facile fabrication of selenium (Se) nanowires for enhanced lithium storage in Li-Se battery. Ionics 23, 3571–3579 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-017-2164-0

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