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Improved cycling stability of nanostructured electrode materials enabled by prelithiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Liqiang Mai ,
Lin Xu ,
Bin Hu  and
Yanhui Gu
Liqiang Mai*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070 China; and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Yanhui Gu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070 China
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: mlq@cmliris.harvard.edu
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Abstract

This review represents recent research on using chemical prelithiation to improve cycling performance of nanostructured electrode materials for lithium ion batteries in our group. We focus on two typical cathode materials, MoO3 nanobelts and FeSe2 nanoflowers. Methods of direct or secondary hydrothermal lithiation of MoO3 nanobelts and FeSe2 nanoflowers are described first, followed by electrochemical investigation of the samples before and after lithiation. Compared with pristine materials, lithiated samples exhibit better cycling capability. Prelithiation of other kinds of materials, such as V2O5, MnO2, etc. is also briefly reviewed. This demonstrates that prelithiation can be a powerful general approach for improving cycling performance of Li-ion battery electrode materials.

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NanostructureHydrothermalEnergy storage
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 25 , Issue 8: Materials for Electrical Energy Storage , August 2010 , pp. 1413 - 1420
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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