TY - JOUR
T1 - One-step synthesis of self-supporting tin oxide/graphene electrodes for lithium ion batteries
AU - Gildea, Arthur N.
AU - Wang, Dan
AU - Botte, Gerardine G.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the financial support of the Chemical and Biomolecular engineering department and the Center for Electrochemical Engineering Research at Ohio University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - A self-supporting binder-free tin oxide (SnO2) graphene nanocomposite electrode was synthesized through a novel one step solvothermal treatment of graphene oxide (GO) paper. To characterize this electrode X-ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and constant current galvanic cycling were performed. The solvothermal treatment simultaneously coats amorphous carbon and SnO2 nanoparticles onto the surface of GO paper, while reducing the GO nanosheets to graphene nanosheets (GNS). This creates a SnO2/GNS film that is flexible, free-standing, and can be used as the negative electrode in lithium ion batteries to deliver a reversible capacity of 400 mA h g−1 after repeated cycling.
AB - A self-supporting binder-free tin oxide (SnO2) graphene nanocomposite electrode was synthesized through a novel one step solvothermal treatment of graphene oxide (GO) paper. To characterize this electrode X-ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and constant current galvanic cycling were performed. The solvothermal treatment simultaneously coats amorphous carbon and SnO2 nanoparticles onto the surface of GO paper, while reducing the GO nanosheets to graphene nanosheets (GNS). This creates a SnO2/GNS film that is flexible, free-standing, and can be used as the negative electrode in lithium ion batteries to deliver a reversible capacity of 400 mA h g−1 after repeated cycling.
KW - Flexible electrode
KW - Graphene
KW - Self-supporting electrode
KW - Solvothermal synthesis
KW - Tin oxide composite
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U2 - 10.1007/s10800-015-0787-2
DO - 10.1007/s10800-015-0787-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925467431
SN - 0021-891X
VL - 45
SP - 217
EP - 224
JO - Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
JF - Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
IS - 3
ER -