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SnO2 nano-mulberries anchored onto RGO nanosheets for lithium ion batteries

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Three-dimensional nano-mulberries consisting of SnO2 nanoparticles have been successfully anchored onto the surfaces of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) to construct hierarchical hybrids—SnO2@RGO with a one-pot approach. The SnO2 nano-mulberries with different amounts of RGO have been produced for optimizing their composition effect on Li storage performance. Specifically, SnO2@RGO hybrids incorporated with optimized amount of RGO nanosheets (∼20.8%) exhibit highly enhanced capacity of ∼1025 mA h/g at 0.1 A/g and a reversible capacity of 750 mA h/g over 100 cycles at 0.2 A/g. The materials also deliver much better rate performance with average specific capacity of ∼498 mA h/g at 2 A/g in comparison with that of SnO2 nano-mulberries. After cycling for 600 times at 1 A/g, the SnO2@RGO electrodes still maintain high reversible capacity of ∼602 mA h/g, corresponding to 35% of the second cycle and 133% of the 70th discharge capacity.

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This work was financially supported by Doctoral Foundation of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry (No. 2018BSJJ027), Key Program of Henan Province for Science and Technology (192102210018), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21071130 and 21371157).

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Gong, F., Liu, M., Gong, L. et al. SnO2 nano-mulberries anchored onto RGO nanosheets for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Materials Research 35, 20–30 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.247

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