“…Thus, much attention has been paid to the construct nanoscaled V 2 O 5 materials to reduce the Li þ ions diffusion distance and to improve the reversibility of V 2 O 5 based electrodes. To date, various nanostructures such as nanoparticles [12,15,16], nanorods [17,18], nanotubes [19], nanowires [20] and nanobelts [21,22] have been reported, which more or less improves the rate capability of V 2 O 5 electrode materials [14,23]. However, the cycling performance in most previous reported works is not quite satisfactory and still needs further improvement.…”