Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 226, Issue -, Pages 75-81Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2012.10.068
Keywords
Hollow microspheres; Carbon coated tin oxide; Lithium ion battery; Raman characterization; Electrochemical conversion reaction
Funding
- National 973 Program of China [2009CB220100]
- WCU (World Class University) program through the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea [R32-2009-000-20074-0]
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SnO2 attracts considerable interest as a promising high-capacity anode material for lithium ion batteries. It is believed that SnO2 stores lithium by the alloying and de-alloying reactions after the initial irreversible reduction from SnO2 to Li2O and metallic Sn. Here we report that a reversible conversion reaction, similar to that often observed in transition metal oxides, can occur in the cycling of the carbon-coated SnO2 hollow microspheres (SnO2/C), as is evidenced by Raman spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and theoretical calculations. However, only alloying and de-alloying reactions can reversibly take place in carbon-free SnO2 hollow microspheres. The reversible capacity of the SnO2/C is even higher than the theoretical capacity of the free SnO2. These findings provide guidance to designing anode materials with higher reversible capacities. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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