Reported by Xiaohui Ning

Research group, represented by Associate Professor Xiaohui Ning from Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-Nano) and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials at XJTU, developed a facile hydrothermal method to synthesize chestnut-like hierarchical hollow SnO2/C nanocomposites which exhibit enhanced lithium ion storage properties. In-situ TEM study demonstrates that the limited volume expansion and excellent mechanical robustness of the hollow chestnuts facilitate the improved cycling performance.

The research result is of great scientific significance to optimizing the structure design of anode materials for high performance lithium ion batteries, and was recently published on Nano Energy titled “Chestnut-like SnO2/C Nanocomposites with Enhanced Lithium Ion Storage Properties”. Xi’an Jiaotong University is the affiliation of the first author and corresponding author.

Paper link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211285516303573