Carbon coated titanium dioxide (CC-TiO2) as an efficient anode material for sodium- ion batteries
摘要
TiO2 has attracted a lot of attention as anode material for sodium-ion batteries due to its higher operating voltage, safely and low lost material, but TiO2 has two main issues, low electronic conductivity and slow solid-state ion diffusion. These issues have been successfully resolved by researchers using carbon coating on TiO2. In this work, carbon coated TiO2 (CC-TiO2) nanoparticles have been synthesized by using TiO2 and sucrose as soluble source of carbon. The carbon coating on TiO2 particles was formed after heat treatment in inert atmosphere. CC-TiO2 particles exhibited reversible capacity of 116 mAh g− 1 at 0.1 C after 50 cycles, and high capacity retention of 77% after 100 cycles in a sodium-ion battery cell. The impressive electrochemical performance of the TiO2 particles is due to several factors: the small size of the crystallites, the continuous electronic network created by the close contact of individual carbon-coated TiO2 particles, and the efficient penetration of the mesopores by the electrolyte.