Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Li_2-xFeSiO₄/C Cathode Material for Li-Ion Batteries

Abstract

Li2-xFeSiO4/C (x=0.01, 0.05, 0.1) were successfully synthesized by a traditional solid-state method and systematically investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the charge-discharge test, respectively. The results demonstrated that Li2-xFeSiO4exhibited the best electrochemical performance among the three as-synthsied samples. it delivered a specific discharge capacity of 142 mAh g-1, 112 mAh g-1at 0.2 C and 2 C, respectively. After 100 cycles at the rate of 1 C, the discharge capacity remained 95.1% of its initial value.