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Concise Strategies to Enhance the High-Rate Performance of Li3VO4 Anodes: Cl Doping, Carbon Coating, and Spherical Architecture Design

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The safe operating voltage and low volume variation of Li3VO4 (LVO) make it an ideal anode material for lithium (Li)-ion batteries. However, the insufficient understanding of the inner storage mechanism hinders the design of LVO-based electrodes. Herein, we investigate, for the first time, the Li-ion storage activity in LVO via Cl doping. Moreover, N-doped C coating was simultaneously achieved in the Cl doping process, resulting in synergistically improved reaction kinetics. As a result, the as-prepared Cl-doped Li3VO4 coated with N-doped C (Cl-LVO@NC) electrodes deliver a discharge capacity of 884.1 mAh/g after 200 cycles at 0.2 A/g, which is the highest among all of the LVO-based electrodes. The Cl-LVO@NC electrodes also exhibit high-capacity retention of 331.1 mAh/g at 8.0 A/g and full capacity recovery after 5 periods of rate testing over 400 cycles. After 5000 cycles at 4.0 A/g, the discharge capacity can be maintained at 423.2 mAh/g, which is superior to most LVO-based electrodes. The Li-ion storage activity in LVO via Cl doping and significant improvement in the high-rate Li-ion storage reported in this work can be used as references for the design of advanced LVO-based electrodes for high-power applications.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52101262), Distinguished Youth Foundation of Hubei Province (2019CFA084), Educational office of Hubei Province (Q20201201), and the 111 project (D20015).

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    Zongping Zhang, Jie Xu, Dongmei Zhang, Cunyuan Pei & Shibing Ni

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    Huijuan Ma

  3. Analysis and Testing Center, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China

    Tao Li

  4. College of Electrical Engineering and New Energy, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, China

    Ting Xiao

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Zhang, Z., Xu, J., Zhang, D. et al. Concise Strategies to Enhance the High-Rate Performance of Li3VO4 Anodes: Cl Doping, Carbon Coating, and Spherical Architecture Design. Trans. Tianjin Univ. 29, 110–119 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12209-022-00348-5

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