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A promising sol-gel method to synthesize NaVO3 as anode material for lithium ion batteries

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The NaVO3 sample has been successfully fabricated via a simple sol-gel method adding Na2CO3 and V2O5 powders into distilled water with citric acid to act as a chelating reagent. X-ray diffraction with Rietveld refinement result shows that single-phase NaVO3 can be obtained by our method. The differences caused by different sintering temperature exist in X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope (SEM), showing that sintering temperature has an important influence on crystal growth and grain size stabilization. When evaluated as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries, the nanosize NaVO3 electrode displays a discharge and recharge capacity of 623.8 and 355.6 mAh g−1 in the first cycle, while a reversible discharge-charge capacity of ∼250 mAh g−1 can be retained after 30 cycles. For comparison, the electrochemical properties of microsize NaVO3 prepared at a higher temperature are also displayed. Furthermore, the structure change of NaVO3 and its Li storage mechanism upon lithiation and delithiation process are studied by ex situ XRD and TEM in below.

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This work was funded by NSFC Grant (nos. 51372089, 51172077, and 51373205) supported through NSFC Committee of China, and the Foundation of (no. 2014ZB0014) supported through the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. School of Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Xudong Liu

  2. School of Physics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Yanming Zhao, Yongzhong Dong, Quan Kuang & Qinghua Fan

  3. State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Yanming Zhao

  4. School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Zhengzhen Jing

  5. Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline Company Limited, Beijing, 100000, China

    Shiyu Hou

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Liu, X., Zhao, Y., Dong, Y. et al. A promising sol-gel method to synthesize NaVO3 as anode material for lithium ion batteries. J Solid State Electrochem 20, 1803–1812 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3188-5

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