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Easy preparation of SnO2@carbon composite nanofibers with improved lithium ion storage properties

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SnO2@carbon nanofibers were synthesized by a combination of electrospinning and subsequent thermal treatments in air and then in argon to demonstrate their potential use as an anode material in lithium ion battery applications. The as-prepared SnO2@carbon nanofibers consist of SnO2 nanoparticles/nanocrystals encapsulated in a carbon matrix and contain many mesopores. Because of the charge pathways, both for the electrons and the lithium ions, and the buffering function provided by both the carbon encapsulating the SnO2 nanoparticles and the mesopores, which tends to alleviate the volumetric effects during the charge/discharge cycles, the nanofibers display a greatly improved reversible capacity of 420 mAh/g after 100 cycles at a constant current of 100 mA/g, and a sharply enhanced reversible capacity at higher rates (0.5, 1, and 2 C) compared with pure SnO2 nanofibers, which makes it a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries.

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  1. Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Zunxian Yang, Guodong Du & Xuebin Yu

  2. Institute of Micro/Nano-Sensors & Solar Energy Cells, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, People’s Republic of China

    Zunxian Yang

  3. Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, and School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Zaiping Guo

  4. Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, People’s Republic of China

    Xuebin Yu

  5. School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Zhixin Chen

  6. Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Peng Zhang & Huakun Liu

  7. Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection Technology for Food Safety of the Ministry of Education, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, People’s Republic of China

    Guonan Chen

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Yang, Z., Du, G., Guo, Z. et al. Easy preparation of SnO2@carbon composite nanofibers with improved lithium ion storage properties. Journal of Materials Research 25, 1516–1524 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2010.0194

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