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Sandwich-structured nanocomposites of N-doped graphene and nearly monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles as high-performance Li-ion battery anodes

Wen Qi1, Xuan Li2, Hui Li3, Weikang Wu3, Pei Li2, Ying Wu1, Chunjiang Kuang1, Shaoxiong Zhou1( ), Xiaolin Li4( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy NanomaterialsAdvance Technology & Materials Co.LtdChina Iron & Steel Research Institute GroupBeijing100081China
School of Materials Science and EngineeringTianjin UniversityTianjin300072China
Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of MaterialsMinistry of EducationShandong UniversityJinan250061China
Department of Stationary Energy StoragePacific Northwest National LaboratoryRichlandWashington99354USA
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Iron oxides have attracted considerable interest as abundant materials for high-capacity Li-ion battery anodes. However, their fast capacity fading owing to poorly controlled reversibility of the conversion reactions greatly hinders their application. Here, a sandwich-structured nanocomposite of N-doped graphene and nearly monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles were developed as high-performance Li-ion battery anode. N-doped graphene serves as a conducting framework for the self-assembled structure and controls Fe3O4 nucleation through the interaction of N dopants, surfactant molecules, and iron precursors. Fe3O4 nanoparticles were well dispersed with a uniform diameter of ~15 nm. The unique sandwich structure enables good electron conductivity and Li-ion accessibility and accommodates a large volume change. Hence, it delivers good cycling reversibility and rate performance with a capacity of ~1, 227 mA·h·g–1 and 96.8% capacity retention over 1, 000 cycles at a current density of 3 A·g–1. Our work provides an ideal structure design for conversion anodes or other electrode materials requiring a large volume change.

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N-doped grapheneiron oxidesself-assemblyLi-ion batterydensity functional theory

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Nano Research
Volume 10 Issue 9,
September 2017
Pages 2923-2933
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-017-1502-x
Cite this article:
Qi W, Li X, Li H, et al. Sandwich-structured nanocomposites of N-doped graphene and nearly monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles as high-performance Li-ion battery anodes. Nano Research, 2017, 10(9): 2923-2933. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1502-x

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Received: 11 October 2016
Revised: 12 January 2017
Accepted: 31 January 2017
Published: 26 May 2017
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