Nature Communications (May 2021)

Inorganic-organic competitive coating strategy derived uniform hollow gradient-structured ferroferric oxide-carbon nanospheres for ultra-fast and long-term lithium-ion battery

  • Yuan Xia,
  • Tiancong Zhao,
  • Xiaohang Zhu,
  • Yujuan Zhao,
  • Haili He,
  • Chin-te Hung,
  • Xingmiao Zhang,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Xinlei Tang,
  • Jinxiu Wang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Dongyuan Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23150-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The gradient-structure is ideal nanostructure for conversion-type anodes with drastic volume change. Here, the authors demonstrate an inorganic-organic competitive coating strategy to construct gradient-structured Fe3O4@C nanospheres.