Revisiting Li+ intercalation into various crystalline phases of Nb2O5 anchored on graphene sheets as pseudocapacitive electrodes

By Kong, Lingping; Cao, Xiaodong; Wang, Jitong; Qiao, Wenming; Ling, Licheng; Long, Donghui
Published in Journal of Power Sources NULL 2016

Abstract

Abstract Herein, polycrystalline Nb2O5 nanoparticles including pseudo-hexagonal (TT-), orthorhombic (T-), tetragonal (M-) and monoclinic (H-) phases are uniformly anchored onto graphene sheets through a polyol-mediated solvothermal reaction and post heat-treatment, enabling us to discuss the effect of Nb2O5 crystalline phases on Li+ intercalation process. Electrochemical results show that Li+ intercalation into M- and H-Nb2O5 are also capacitive behavior, exhibiting higher capacity of 650 C g?1 and 615 C g?1 than T- and TT-phases of 585 C g?1 and 530 C g?1 at 0.5 A g?1. The higher capacity-retention is also obtained for M- and H-phases (509 and 452 C g?1) compared to T- and TT-phases (305 and 207 C g?1) at 20 A g?1. The high rate performance of H-phase can be explained by higher Li+ diffusion coefficients (DLi) of 1.6

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