Design of Rugby-Like GeO₂ Grown on Carbon Cloth as a Flexible Anode for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

Saisai Wang; Xianli Gu; Linlin Wang; Chun Wu; Qi Liu; Lingyu Zhao; Yufan Xue; Wenyao Li; Yichuan Rui; Jingli Xu; Mei Ding

doi:10.1166/jnn.2019.16455

Design of Rugby-Like GeO₂ Grown on Carbon Cloth as a Flexible Anode for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2019 Jan 1;19(1):263-267. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2019.16455.

Authors

Saisai Wang¹, Xianli Gu¹, Linlin Wang², Chun Wu³, Qi Liu¹, Lingyu Zhao¹, Yufan Xue¹, Wenyao Li¹, Yichuan Rui¹, Jingli Xu¹, Mei Ding³

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China.
² Sustainable Energy Research Institute, College of Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, P. R. China.
³ College of Materials Science and Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, P. R. China.

PMID: 30327034
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2019.16455

Abstract

The new demands for energy storage systems have been placed with demands for flexible wearable electronics. Herein, rugby-like GeO₂ nanoparticles (NPs) have been directly grown on carbon cloth (GeO₂ NPs/CC) through a one-step hydrolysis process at room temperature, which can be used as a self-supporting flexible anode for lithium ion battery (LIBs). The rugby-like GeO₂ NPs/CC showed an improved lithium-storage performance with features of high reversible capacity ~2000 mA·h·g^-1 even after 100 cycles and good cycling stability. Besides, its initial coulomb efficiency (79.1%) was also enhanced compared to that of some reported GeO₂-based materials.