Spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) contain a large number of valuable metals and will be an important strategic resource in the future. Therefore, recycling is extremely important. In this work, acetic acid hydrogen peroxide were used as leaching agents to recover (lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, aluminum) from cathode anode materials (LiCoO2, LiAl0.2Co0.8O2, C) spent LIBs. The solution res...

The lack of suitable nonflammable electrolytes has delayed battery application in electric vehicles. A new approach to improve the safety performance for lithium battery is proposed here. This technology is based on a nanogelator-based solid electrolyte made of porous oxides and an ionic liquid. The electrolyte is fabricated using an in situ method and the porous oxides serve as a nonflammable ...

Transition metal oxides have been suggested as innovative, high-energy electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries because their electrochemical conversion reactions can transfer two to six electrons. However, nano-sized transition metal oxides, especially Co3O4, exhibit drastic capacity decay during discharge/charge cycling, which hinders their practical use in lithium-ion batteries. Herein,...

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been intensively studied to meet the increased demands for the high energy density of portable electronics and electric vehicles. The low specific capacity of the conventional graphite based anodes is one of the key factors that limit the capacity of LIBs. Transition metal oxides, such as NiO, MnO2 and Fe3O4, are known to be promising anode materials that are e...

The materials batteries have host compositional range. used for the negative and positive electrodes of rechargeable “lithium-ion” structures that can accommodate and release lithium over a wide In these batteries, carbon and intermetallic compounds have been widely exploited as the negative electrodes, and transition metal oxides as the positive electrodes. For a lithium-ion battery to perform...

Lithium-oxygen batteries have a great potential to enhance the gravimetric energy density of fully packaged batteries by two to three times that of lithium ion cells. Recent studies have focused on finding stable electrolytes to address poor cycling capability and improve practical limitations of current lithium-oxygen batteries. In this study, the catalyst electrode, where discharge products a...

In this work, carbon submicron fiber composites loaded with a cobalt-ferric alloy and binary metal compounds were prepared by electrospinning high temperature annealing using acetone ferric as precursors polyacrylonitrile source. The phase transformation mechanism of the fiber-supported Co-Fe bimetallic compound during was investigated. electrochemical properties oxide self-supported electrode ...

Transitional metal oxides hold great potential for high capacity anodes. However, the low electron conductivity of such materials leads to poor cycling stability and inferior rate capability. We reported herein the use of a novel hydrogen plasma technology to improve the conductance of metal oxides, which leads great success in improving the rate performance of CuO nanotube based anodes. This m...