“…The sprayed droplets were heated at about 350 °C under the protection of N 2 gas during their descent of the pyrolysis reactor. The resulting particles were collected, washed with deionized water and ethanol, and then vacuum-dried at 80 °C for 4 h. By following the above procedures and changing the molar ratio of Fe to Ni, we obtained a series of LiFePO 4 nanospheres that contained 0, 0.35 wt%, 0.86 wt%, and 1.50 wt% NiP, as measured by inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy [22]. For comparison, LiFePO 4 bulk particles were prepared through a conventional solid-phase reaction [23] using Li 2 CO 3 , NH 4 H 2 PO 4 , and Fe(CH 3 CO 2 ) 2 .…”