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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 775-782Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.202001450
Keywords
Vanadates; Lithium-ion batteries; Nanostructures; Transition metal oxides; Hydrothermal reaction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [52076045]
- Zhishan Scholar from SEU
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Vanadates have gained attention for their potential use in electrochemical devices like batteries and electrocatalysis. However, the challenges of obtaining pure-phase transition metal vanadates, particularly nickel-based ones, have hampered their development. A new method of fabricating grape-like Ni2V2O7 microspheres has been successfully demonstrated, showing excellent electrochemical performance, suggesting new opportunities for nickel vanadates in electrochemistry.
Vanadates have received booming attention recently as promising materials for extensive electrochemical devices such as batteries and electrocatalysis. However, the enormous difficulties of achieving pure-phase transition metal vanadates, especially for nickel-based, hinder their exploitations. Herein, for the first time, by controlling the amount of ethylene glycol (EG) and reaction time, grape-like Ni2V2O7 (or V2O5/Ni2V2O7) microspheres were rationally fabricated. It is demonstrated that the EG can chelate both Ni2+ and VO3- to form organometallic precursors. As anode in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), it could deliver superior reversible capacity of 1050 mAh/g at 0.1 A/g and excellent rate capability of 600 mAh/g at 4 A/g. The facile hydrothermal synthesis broadens the material variety of nickel vanadates and offers new opportunities for their wider applications in electrochemistry.
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