A case study on fibrous porous SnO2 anode for robust, high-capacity lithium-ion batteries
RIS ID
95393
Abstract
Transition metal oxides have attracted considerable interest as promising anode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their high energy densities. It is necessary, however, to resolve the foremost issue for them in terms of practical applications, relating to the large volume changes during cell operation. Herein, we report a SnO2 anode with a hierarchical fibrous porous architecture which was fabricated by electrospinning the Sn-precursor with poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and subsequent temperature-dependent pyrolysis processes, resulting in the distinctive morphology, featuring hierarchical fibrous porous structures on the microscale with numerous primary constituent nanoparticles. The porous fibres are composed of uniform polycrystalline nanoparticles (approximately 10-50nm in size) and abundant voids in close proximity to the constituent nanoparticles. By comparing with an anode containing commercial SnO2 nanopowder (with a size of
Grant Number
ARC/FT110100170
Publication Details
Hwang, S. Min., Lim, Y., Kim, J., Heo, Y., Lim, J., Yamauchi, Y., Park, M., Kim, Y., Dou, S. Xue. & Kim, J. (2014). A case study on fibrous porous SnO2 anode for robust, high-capacity lithium-ion batteries. Nano Energy, 10 53-62.