Journal
ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages 1154-1157Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2010.05.045
Keywords
Vanadium oxide; Hydrothermal; Nanomaterials; Lithium batteries
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Federal RD Program [02.513.12.3018]
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5-10 mu m long, typically 200-300 nm wide, and several nanometers thick LixV2O5 (x similar to 0.8) nanobelts with the delta-type crystal structure were synthesized by a hydrothermal treatment of Li+-exchanged V2O5 gel. When dried at 200 degrees C under vacuum prior to electrochemical testing, the as-prepared nanobelts underwent the well-known delta ->epsilon ->gamma-phase transition giving a mixture of epsilon and gamma phases as a nanocomposite electrode material. Such a simple preparation procedure guarantees a yield of material with drastically enhanced initial discharge specific capacity of 490 rnAh/g and great cyclability. The enhanced electrochemical performance is attributed to the complex of experimental procedures including post-synthesis treatment of the single-crystalline LixV2O5 nanobelts. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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