1 Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, P. R. China. anmin_cao@iccas.ac.cn wanlijun@iccas.ac.cn.
2 College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China.
Uniform AlPO4 nanoshells are successfully achieved on different core materials by controlling their formation kinetics in solution. The application of this coating protocol to LiCoO2 shows an obvious improvement in its battery performance.