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Self-supported ultrathin mesoporous CoFe2O4/CoO nanosheet arrays assembled from nanowires with enhanced lithium storage performance

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Self-supported two-dimensional metal oxide nanosheet arrays have attracted great attention in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their superior structure advantages such as large surface area, good structure stability, and high electronic conductivity compared to one dimensional (1D) nanowires. Herein, we design the self-supported mesoporous CoFe2O4/CoO nanosheet arrays assembled from the nanowires precursor based on the combination of hydrothermal and atomic layer deposition techniques. The assembled CoFe2O4/CoO nanosheets exhibit an ultra-high initial charge capacity of 1705 mAhg−1 and good cycling stability (1043 mAhg−1 after 50 cycles) when directly used as a binder-free anode of LIBs.

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 91333112 and U1432249), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions. This is also a project supported by Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science & Technology, and sponsored by Qing Lan Project. The Advanced Light Source is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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    Jiwei Wang, Hui Zhang, Xiaoxin Lv, Kaiqi Nie, Xuejie Gao, Jun Zhong & Xuhui Sun

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Wang, J., Zhang, H., Lv, X. et al. Self-supported ultrathin mesoporous CoFe2O4/CoO nanosheet arrays assembled from nanowires with enhanced lithium storage performance. J Mater Sci 51, 6590–6599 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-9902-y

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