Revealing mechanism responsible for structural reversibility of single-crystal VO2 nanorods upon lithiation/delithiation

Liu, Qi; Tan, Guoqiang; Wang, Peng; Abeyweera, Sasitha C.; Zhang, Dongtang; Rong, Yangchun; Wu, Yimin A.; Lu, Jun; Sun, Cheng -Jun; Ren, Yang; Liu, Yuzi; Muehleisen, Ralph T.; Guzowski, Leah B.; Li, Jie; Xiao, Xianghui; Sun, Yugang

doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.04.023

Revealing mechanism responsible for structural reversibility of single-crystal VO₂ nanorods upon lithiation/delithiation

Journal Article · Mon Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nano Energy

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.04.023· OSTI ID:1365817

Liu, Qi ^[1]; Tan, Guoqiang ^[1]; Wang, Peng ^[2]; Abeyweera, Sasitha C. ^[3]; Zhang, Dongtang ^[3]; Rong, Yangchun ^[1]; Wu, Yimin A. ^[1]; Lu, Jun ^[1]; Sun, Cheng -Jun ^[1]; Ren, Yang ^[1]; Liu, Yuzi ^[1]; Muehleisen, Ralph T. ^[1]; Guzowski, Leah B. ^[1]; Li, Jie ^[1]; Xiao, Xianghui ^[1]; Sun, Yugang ^[3]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)

A pure phase of VO₂(B) nanorods have been synthesized through an energy-efficient microwave hydrothermal reaction and used as cathode materials of lithium ion batteries, which exhibit promising specific capacity (e.g., 130 mA h g^-1 even after 100 charge/discharge cycles) and rate capacity (e.g., ~130 mA h g^-1 at a high current of 400 mA g^-1). The excellent cyclability originates from the structural reversibility of VO₂(B) upon lithiation/delithiation that is confirmed by the in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction (HEXRD) and in situ x-ray adsorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) of the VO₂ nanorods in operating battery cells. As a result, the real-time results reveal that discharge forces lithium ions to insert firstly into the tunnels with the largest size along b direction followed by the second largest tunnels along c direction, which is completely reversible in the charge process.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1365817

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1416779
OSTI ID: 22912710

Journal Information:: Nano Energy, Journal Name: Nano Energy Journal Issue: C Vol. 36; ISSN 2211-2855

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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