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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015)

Rational Design of WO3 Nanostructures as the Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries with Enhanced Electrochemical Performance

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-014-0013-5
Yang Liu
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China
Yang Jiao
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China
Haiyue Zhou
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China
Xiang Yu
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China
Fengyu Qu
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China
Xiang Wu
Key Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Xiang Wu

wuxiang@hrbnu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015), Article Number: 12-16

Abstract

A facile, one-step hydrothermal method was employed to synthesize two kinds of WO3 nanostructures. By using different kinds of sylvine, tungsten trioxide (WO3) with different morphologies of microflowers and nanowires was obtained, respectively. The discharge capacities for microflowers and nanowires are 107 and 146 mAh g−1 after 180 cycles, and their corresponding capacity retentions after the first cycle are 72 and 85 %, respectively. Even at a high current density of 1,600 mAh g−1, the discharge capacities of WO3 microflowers and nanowires are as high as 433 and 557 mAh g−1 after 40 cycles, in which the current densities were increased stepwise. It is worth mentioned that the rate capability of the nanowires is superior to that of the microflowers. However, the cycle performance of the microflowers is better than nanowires, revealing that the morphology and structure of the as-synthesized WO3 products can exert great influence on the electrochemical performances.

Keywords

WO3 nanostructures Anode materials Li-ion batteries
Liu, Yang, Yang Jiao, Haiyue Zhou, Xiang Yu, Fengyu Qu, and Xiang Wu. 2014. “Rational Design of WO3 Nanostructures As the Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries With Enhanced Electrochemical Performance”. Nano-Micro Letters 7 (1):12-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-014-0013-5.
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