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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 16, Pages 7845-7850Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm30422h
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- National University of Singapore Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering (NGS)
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One great challenge in designing anode materials for lithium-ion batteries is to satisfy the concurrent requirements for good capacity retention, high rate performance and low first cycle losses. We report here the design and synthesis of a nitrogen-doped carbon encapsulated Fe3O4 composite which performed very well in all these areas. The composite with the optimized carbon content not only showed a high reversible capacity of similar to 850 mA h g(-1) for 50 cycles at 100 mA g(-1), but was also able to maintain a stable cycling performance at a twenty-fold increase in current density to 2000 mA g(-1). More importantly, the composite significantly lowered the irreversible capacity loss in the first cycle compared with other iron oxide anodes reported in the literature. Characterization of the electrode/electrolyte interface indicated the presence of a protective solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer in which chemically stable LiF and FeF3 were the major constituents. Thus, it is believed that the N-doped carbon coating had effectively modified the surface chemistry at the anode/electrolyte interface to increase the columbic efficiency of cycling and to reduce the secondary reactions in the first cycle of use.
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