Fabrication of spinel one-dimensional architectures by single-spinneret electrospinning for energy storage applications.

Peng, Shengjie; Li, Linlin; Hu, Yuxiang; Srinivasan, Madhavi; Cheng, Fangyi; Chen, Jun; Ramakrishna, Seeram · ACS Nano · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A facile and general method is developed to fabricate one-dimensional (1D) spinel composite oxides with complex architectures by using a facile single-spinneret electrospinning technique. It is found that precursor polymers and heating rates could control the structures of the products, such as 1D solid, nanotube and tube-in-tubes structures. Especially, the tube-in-tube structures have been successfully fabricated for various mixed metal oxide, including CoMn2O4, NiCo2O4, CoFe2O4, NiMn2O4 and ZnMn2O4. Benefiting from the unique structure features, the tube-in-tube hollow nanostructures possess superior electrochemical performances in asymmetric supercapacitors and Li-O2 batteries.