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Surface oxygen vacancies boosted high rate performance of porous MnO2 anode for lithium-ion batteries

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The main obstacles to the development of manganese-based oxide anode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are inherently low conductivity and sluggish electrochemical kinetics. In this work, we propose a strategy of introducing oxygen vacancies (Vö) on the surface of nanostructure at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to improve the electrochemical performance of anode materials. Porous MnO2 spheroids with 11.2% Vö are fabricated by a ball milling method using commercial electrolytic MnO2. The as-synthesized MnO2 is composed of 20–30 nm nanoparticles. The optimized MnO2 shows an excellent rate capability of 350 mAh g−1 at 6.4 A g−1 and high specific capacity of 1200 mAh g−1 after 650 cycles under 2 A g−1. The boosted electrochemical performance is attributed to the porous hierarchical structure and the appropriate Vö concentration involved in the MnO2. In addition, the enhanced Li+ diffusion coefficient is demonstrated through the kinetics analysis. The approach provides a facile route via tunable Vö concentration for improving the electrochemical performance of manganese-based oxide anode materials for LIBs.

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• The porous MnO2 spheroids with tunable Vö concentrate were synthesized by a ball milling method.

• The MnO2 spheroids are composed of 20-30 nm nanoparticles.

• The MnO2 spheroids exhibit an excellent rate performance and cycling stability.

• The ball mill is facile, environmentally friendly, economical for the mass industrial scale.

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This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21975036) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3132019328).

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    Xiaole Zhang, Song Li, Shenghe Wang, Kun Liu, Zining Zhang, Zhongsheng Wen, Shijun Ji & Juncai Sun

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Zhang, X., Li, S., Wang, S. et al. Surface oxygen vacancies boosted high rate performance of porous MnO2 anode for lithium-ion batteries. Ionics 28, 139–149 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-021-04303-7

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