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A new route to single crystalline vanadium dioxide nanoflakes via thermal reduction

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Large-area single-crystalline vanadium dioxide nanoflakes were first fabricated via a thermal reduction method in a tube furnace. The sample was characterized by x-ray diffraction, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. The results show that VO2 nanoflakes are single-crystalline with a monoclinic structure. The VO2 nanoflakes have a width of 200–300 nm, a thickness of 50–100 nm, and a length up to 1–2 μm. It is found that single-crystalline VO2 nanoflakes show a novel and complicated 5–7-step Li-storage behavior for an insertion amount of <0.6 mol lithium per mol of VO2.

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This work was supported in part by the National 863 and 973 projects, and the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 90201036, 60571045, and 60228005.

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    Jifa Tian, Fei Liu, Chengmin Shen, Huairuo Zhang, Tianzhong Yang, Lihong Bao, Xingjun Wang, Daotan Liu, Hong Li, Xuejie Huang, Jianqi Li, Liquan Chen & Hongjun Gao

  2. State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People’s Republic of China

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Tian, J., Liu, F., Shen, C. et al. A new route to single crystalline vanadium dioxide nanoflakes via thermal reduction. Journal of Materials Research 22, 1921–1926 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2007.0255

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