Citation: Junjun Zhang, Huiying Lu, Tianhao Yao, Xin Ji, Qingmiao Zhang, Lingjie Meng, Jianmin Feng, Hongkang Wang. Copper-induced formation of heterostructured Co₃O₄/CuO hollow nanospheres towards greatly enhanced lithium storage performance[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(2): 108450. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108450 shu

Copper-induced formation of heterostructured Co₃O₄/CuO hollow nanospheres towards greatly enhanced lithium storage performance

Junjun Zhang ^{a, 1} ,
Huiying Lu ^{b, 1} ,
Tianhao Yao ^b ,
Xin Ji ^b ,
Qingmiao Zhang ^c ,
Lingjie Meng ^c ,
Jianmin Feng ^a ,
Hongkang Wang ^{b, *,}

a.
College of Geography & Environment, Xianyang Normal University, Xianyang 712000, China
b.
State Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Center of Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy (CNRE), School of Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
c.
School of Chemistry, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Sustainable Energy Material Chemistry, and Instrumental Analysis Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

hongkang.wang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Received Date: 30 January 2023
Revised Date: 23 March 2023
Accepted Date: 12 April 2023
Available Online: 14 April 2023

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We report a facile template-free fabrication of heterostructured Co₃O₄/CuO hollow nanospheres using pre-synthesized Co/Cu-glycerate as conformal precursor. The introduction of copper nitrate in the solvothermal reaction system of glycerol/isopropanol/cobalt nitrate readily induces the conversion from solid Co-glycerate to hollow Co/Cu-glycerate nanospheres, and the effect of the Co/Cu atomic ratio on the structure evolution of the metal glycerates as well as their corresponding oxides were investigated. When examined as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, the well-defined Co₃O₄/CuO hollow nanospheres with Co/Cu molar ratio of 2.0 demonstrate excellent lithium storage performance, delivering a high reversible capacity of 930 mAh/g after 300 cycles at a current density of 0.5 A/g and a stable capacity of 650 mAh/g after 500 cycles even at a higher current density of 2.0 A/g, which are much better than their counterparts of bare CuO and Co₃O₄. The enhanced lithium storage performance can be attributed to the synergistic effect of the CuO and Co₃O₄ heterostructure with hollow spherical morphology, which greatly enhances the charge/electrolyte transfer and effectively buffers the volume changes upon lithiation/delithiation cycling.
- Lithium-ion batteries,
- Co/Cu-glycerate,
- Hollow nanospheres,
- Co₃O₄/CuO heterostructure,
- Electrochemical properties
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