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NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 3217-3222Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3nr06452b
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- State Key Basic Research Program of the PRC [2012CB224805, 2013CB934104]
- NSF of China [21210004]
- Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project [B108]
- King Abdulaziz University (KAU) [32-3-1432/HiCi]
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In this work, we report a facile synthesis of uniform SnO2@C yolk-shell nanospheres as high-performance anode materials for lithium ion batteries (LIBs). The yolk-shell structured SnO2@C nanospheres were fabricated through a two-step sol-gel coating process by using tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) as precursors, where the silica interlayer not only acts as a template to produce the void space, but also promotes the coating of the RF layer. The synthesis is easy to operate and allows tailoring the carbon shell thickness and void space size. The resultant SnO2@C yolk-shell nanospheres possess a hollow highly crystalline SnO2 core (280-380 nm), tailored carbon shell thickness (15-25 nm) and a large void space size (100-160 nm), a high surface area (similar to 205 m(2) g (1)), a large pore volume (similar to 0.25 cm(3) g(-1)), as well as a high SnO2 content (77 wt%). When evaluated as an anode of LIBs, the materials manifest superior electrochemical performance with a high lithium storage capability (2190 mA h g(-1) in initial discharge capacity; >950 mA h g(-1) in the first 10 cycles), a good cycling performance and an excellent rate capability.
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