Stepwise chelation-etching synthesis of carbon-confined ultrafine SnO2 nanoparticles for stable sodium storage

Yuanjie Zhang; Jiashen Meng; Xuanpeng Wang; Xiong Liu; Xiaoming Xu; Ziang Liu; Kwadwo Asare Owusu; Congyun Huang; Qi Li; Liqiang Mai

doi:10.1039/c7cc08959g

Stepwise chelation-etching synthesis of carbon-confined ultrafine SnO₂ nanoparticles for stable sodium storage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Feb 11;54(12):1469-1472. doi: 10.1039/c7cc08959g. Epub 2018 Jan 22.

Authors

Yuanjie Zhang¹, Jiashen Meng, Xuanpeng Wang, Xiong Liu, Xiaoming Xu, Ziang Liu, Kwadwo Asare Owusu, Congyun Huang, Qi Li, Liqiang Mai

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China. qi.li@whut.edu.cn mlq518@whut.edu.cn.

PMID: 29355857
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc08959g

Abstract

A stepwise chelation-etching approach to synthesize carbon-confined ultrafine SnO₂ nanoparticles was developed via conformal coating with polydopamine and chelation-etching with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). EDTA plays a crucial role in the ordered removal of cobalt and tin. The obtained composite exhibits superior sodium storage performance.