In their NJC paper, George Hasegawa and co-workers (Kyoto University, Japan) demonstrate facile synthesis of hierarchically porous N-doped TiO2 and applications to the anode of Li-ion batteries.
The precursor titanium-based hybrid gels were prepared by crosslinking titanium alkoxide with ethylenediamine in a non-hydrolytic sol-gel route which leads to TiO2 homogeneously doped with a high amount of nitrogen. The combination of N-doping into TiO2 and hierarchically porous structure effectively improves electrode performance; the resultant N-doped anatase showed good discharge capacities higher than the capacity of conventional anatase electrodes.
Synthesis and Electrochemical Performance of Hierarchically Porous N-doped TiO2 for Li-ion Batteries
George Hasegawa, Tatsuya Sato, Kazuyoshi Kanamori, Kazuki Nakanishi and Takeshi Abe
New J. Chem., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C3NJ01332D
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