Lithium titanium oxide with the cubic spinel structure, Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 (LTO), has been extensively investigated as anode materials for the next-generation lithium ion batteries because of its intrinsic characteristics, such as the stable charge/discharge platform at 1.5 V vs. Li + /Li, which is just above the formation of SEI. Also note that it has zero strain features during the lithium intercalation/extraction. [9][10][11][12][13][14] It was not surprising to see that proprietary nanostructured LTO was fi rstly introduced to replace the traditional graphite materials in EVs and advanced energy storage systems by Altairnano. [ 15 ] Nevertheless, the rate performance of pristine LTO is relatively poor due to its moderate Li + diffusion coeffi cient and low electrical conductivity. It should be pointed out that the LTO-based LIBs suffer from severe gassing during charge/discharge cycles, resulting from interfacial reactions between LTO and surrounding alkyl carbonate solvents, which hinders its large-scale applications in LIBs industries. [16][17][18][19] To suppress the gassing issues, an effective strategy of constructing a barrier between the LTO and the surrounding electrolyte solution has been designed. [ 19 ] In terms of the improvement of rate capability, many methods including designing of novel micro-nanostructure, doping with foreign atoms and conductive agents incorporating, have been exploited up to now. [ 10,13,14 ] Micro-nanostructured LTO materials, with short transportation distance for both Li + and electrons, have been extensively developed to increase the rate capability. [20][21][22][23][24] However, the preparation of these structured materials in large scale is costly and quite challenging. The conductivity and rate performance of LTO can also be tuned by doping some foreign atoms. [ 10,13,14,25,26 ] Recently, phosphidated-Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 was fabricated by Park et al. via the thermal decomposition of trioctylphosphine. [ 24 ] This material with enhanced Li + conductivity improved the rate performance to a capacity of 100 mAh g −1 at a rate of 10C (1C = 175 mA g −1 ). This enhancement is meaningful but still not good enough for applications in EVs or large-scale energy storage.Another good choice to enhance the rate performance is conductive agents incorporating. Graphene, a single-atomthick sheet of honeycomb carbon lattice, was recently chosen as a conductive additive to improve the capabilities of LTO composites due to its superior electrical conductivity (64 mS cm −1 ), extremely high theoretical surface area (2675 m 2 g −1 ) andNonoxidative cathodically induced graphene (CIG) here incorporates conductive agents for Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 (LTO) anode materials. The tailored LTO/CIG composite is fabricated by controlled hydrolysis of tetrabutyl titanate in the presence of nonoxidative defect-free cathodically induced graphene (CIG) and oxalic acid in a mixed solvent of ethanol and water, followed by hydrothermal reaction and a calcination treatment. Due to the introduction of defect-free graphene, t...
Zintl compounds stimulated by cathodic corrosion have been introduced for the first time to turn bulk Sn and Pb into micro/nano powder materials.
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