Ordered mesoporous metallic MoO2 materials with highly reversible lithium storage capacity.

Shi, Yifeng; Guo, Bingkun; Corr, Serena A; Shi, Qihui; Hu, Yong-Sheng; Heier, Kevin R; Chen, Liquan; Seshadri, Ram et al. · Nano Lett · 2009

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Highly ordered mesoporous crystalline MoO(2) materials with bicontinuous Ia3d mesostructure were synthesized by using phosphomolybdic acid as a precursor and mesoporous silica KIT-6 as a hard template in a 10% H(2) atmosphere via nanocasting strategy. The prepared mesoporous MoO(2) material shows a typical metallic conductivity with a low resistivity ( approximately 0.01Omega cm at 300 K), which makes it different from all previously reported mesoporous metal oxides materials. Primary test found that mesoporous MoO(2) material exhibits a reversible electrochemical lithium storage capacity as high as 750 mA h g(-1) at C/20 after 30 cycles, rendering it as a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries.

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