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Nanoengineering mesoporous graphene-based anatase/bronze TiO2 heterostructures for pseudocapacitance-enhanced lithium-ion batteries

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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 790, Issue -, Pages 683-692

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.03.237

Keywords

Mesoporous TiO2; Graphene; Heterostructures; Lithium-ion battery; Pseudocapacitance

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21771081]
  2. Provincial major project [20180101001JC]
  3. Chang Bai Mountain Scholars Program [440020031182]

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As an anode material for lithium-ion batteries, titanium dioxide (TiO2) shows excellent cycling performance. However, the poor rate capacity and low electrical conductivity of TiO2 greatly restrain its application. To improve the slow ion/electron mobility, TiO2 nanosheets with tuned phase compositions and mesoporous structures are being investigated. Here, mesoporous nanosheets with multiple TiO2 phases (anatase/bronze) conformably coated on few-layer graphene (TiO2(AB)@rGO) are synthesized via a one-pot refluxing method followed by freeze drying and heat treatment. This Ti-O2(AB)@rGO exhibits sheet-like structure constructed of small size (similar to 10 nm) with high specific surface area (similar to 165.1 m(2)g(-1)) and uniform mesopore distribution (similar to 4.0 and 34.5 nm). Consequently, the TiO2(AB)@rGO displays a high specific reversible capacity (300.3 mAh g(-1) at 0.17 C) and excellent rate capacity (103.2 mAh g(-1) at 7.08 C), which may be attributed to the better ionic/electronic network constructed by hierarchical graphene with superior pseudocapacitive behavior supported by cyclic voltammetry (CV) kinetics analysis. In addition, the mesoporous structure greatly improvs the contact area between electrode and electrolyte, thereby contributing directly to greatly enhanced rate performance. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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