Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano12213762
Keywords
anode materials; phase engineering; molybdenum trioxide; homojunctions; lithium-ion storage
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- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2022M711381]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21706103]
- Nanjing Tech University Research Start-up Fund [38274017111]
- Zhongyan Jilantai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. [FZ2019-RWS-027]
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The research found that the phase-engineered α/h-MoO3 homojunctions have excessive hetero-phase interface, creating more active sites for Li+ storage and inducing a built-in electric field to enhance electron/ion transport. This has led to higher capacity and rate performance in lithium-ion batteries compared to using single-phase MoO3.
With high theoretical specific capacity, the low-cost MoO3 is known to be a promising anode for lithium-ion batteries. However, low electronic conductivity and sluggish reaction kinetics have limited its ability for lithium ion storage. To improve this, the phase engineering approach is used to fabricate orthorhombic/monoclinic MoO3 (alpha/h-MoO3) homojunctions. The alpha/h-MoO3 is found to have excessive hetero-phase interface. This not only creates more active sites in the MoO3 for Li+ storage, it regulates local coordination environment and electronic structure, thus inducing a built-in electric field for boosting electron/ion transport. In using alpha/h-MoO3, higher capacity (1094 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1)) and rate performance (406 mAh g(-1) at 5.0 A g(-1)) are obtained than when using only the single phase h-MoO3 or alpha-MoO3. This work provides an option to use alpha/h-MoO3 hetero-phase homojunction in LIBs.
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