CuO Necklace: Controlled Synthesis of a Metal Oxide and Carbon Nanotube Heterostructure for Enhanced Lithium Storage Performance

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• 作者：Yin Zhang ; Minwei Xu ; Fei Wang ; Xiaoping Song ; YuHuang Wang ; Sen Yang
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June 13, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：117
• 期：23
• 页码：12346-12351
• 全文大小：353K
• 年卷期：v.117,no.23(June 13, 2013)
• ISSN：1932-7455

文摘

Metal oxide and nanocarbon heterostructures provide a powerful strategy to materials innovation because judicious combination of different materials may afford collective properties that are otherwise unattainable. However, design and fabrication of spatially patterned heterostructures has been still challenging. Here, we develop a facile approach to synthesize a CuO and carbon nanotube necklace-like heterostructure in solution for enhanced lithium storage performance. Observations confirm that propagative sidewall alkylcarboxylation of carbon nanotubes in liquid ammonia allows the CuO nanospheres to grow on the functional defect sites introduced by the functionalization. Such a method does not require surfactants and is highly scalable. The resulting materials show high lithium ion storage capacities (stable at 500 mAh g^鈥?) and enhanced cycling performance as a lithium-ion battery anode. The improved performance is attributed to the necklace-like nanostructure, which provides an electrical channel as well as excess room to accommodate the volume changes of CuO during electrochemical cycling.