Supporting Information Hierarchical MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C Hybrid Nanowires for High-Rate and Long-Life Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries Lichun Yang, a Xiang Li, a Yunpeng Ouyang, a Qingsheng Gao, b Liuzhang Ouyang, a Renzong Hu, a Jun Liu, a Min Zhu* a a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, P. R. China. Email: memzhu@scut.edu.cn b Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, P. R. China. S-1
(a) (b) Figure S1. (a) SEM image and (b) N 2 sorption isomers of the MoO 2 NPs purchased from Alfa Aesar. S-2
Figure S2. SEM image of the Mo 3 O 10 (C 6 H 5 NH 3 ) 2 2H 2 O nanowires. (a) (b) Figure S3. (a) TEM image and (b) SAED of free carbon obtained after the removal of MoO 2 and Mo 2 C in the MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C HNWs. S-3
Capacity (mah g -1 ) dq/dv (mah g -1 V -1 ) 1000 0 - -1000-1 1st 100th 200th 300th -2000 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 Potential vs. Li/Li + (V) Figure S4. Differential capacity vs. potential plots for different cycles of the MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C HNWs at a current density of 200 ma g -1. 1000 800 600 discharge (1.0-0.05 V) charge (0-1.0 V) charge (1.0-2.0 V) charge (2.0-3.0 V) 400 200 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 Cycle number Figure S5. Capacity contribution of the MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C HNWs in different potential region tested at a current density of 200 ma g -1. S-4
Figure S6. TEM image of the MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C HNWs after 100 cycles of discharge/discharge at a current density of 2000 ma g -1. S-5
log (i) Current density (A/g) (a) 3 2 Peak 3 Peak 4 1 0-1 -2 Peak 2 Peak 1 0.3 mv/s 0.5 mv/s 0.7mV/s 1mV/s 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 Potential vs. Li/Li + (V) (b) 0.4 0.2 Symbol Peak b-value 1 0.55 2 0.85 3 0.61 4 0.65 0.0-0.2-0.4-0.6-0.5-0.4-0.3-0.2-0.1 0.0 0.1 log (v) Figure S7. (a) CV profiles of the MoO 2 NPs after ten successive CV cycles (scanned at 1 mv s -1 ) and (b) log i vs. log plots for the cathodic and anodic peaks derived from the CV curves shown in panel a. S-6
Table S1. Comparison on the electrochemical performance of MoO 2 -based nanomaterials MoO 2 based materials Current density (ma/g) Capacity retention (mah/g) Cycle number References carbon-coated MoO 2 1 838 650 30 naospheres Hierarchical MoO 2 -graphene 1000 600 70 2 nanoarchitecture MoO 2 -graphene 540 550 1000 3 Yolk-shell MoO 2 4 662 50 microspheres Mo 2 N nanolayer coated MoO 2 hollow nanostructure 2000 548 100 5 MoO 2 /Mo 2 C heteronanotubes MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C spheres porous MoO 2 /graphene microspheres MoO 2 /N-doped graphene ultrathin MoO 2 nanosheets encapsuled in carbon MoO 2 /Mo 2 C/C HNWs References 200 1000 100 790 510 ~900 ~700 140 140 200 838 ~800 50 1000 0 200 2000 1027 873 1051 719 950 602 60 100 100 100 320 6 7 8 9 10 This work 1. Wang, Z.; Chen, J. S.; Zhu, T.; Madhavi, S.; Lou, X. W. One-Pot Synthesis of Uniform Carbon-Coated MoO 2 Nanospheres for High-Rate Reversible Lithium Storage. Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 6906-6908. 2. Sun, Y.; Hu, X.; Luo, W.; Huang, Y. Self-Assembled Hierarchical MoO 2 /Graphene Nanoarchitectures and Their Application as a High-Performance Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries. Acs Nano 2011, 5, 7100-7107. 3. Bhaskar, A.; Deepa, M.; Rao, T. N.; Varadaraju, U. V. Enhanced Nanoscale Conduction Capability of a MoO 2 /Graphene Composite for High Performance Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries. J. Power Sources 2012, 216, 169-178. S-7
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