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Hierarchical Fe3O4@C nanofoams derived from metal–organic frameworks for high-performance lithium storage

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A facile method was employed to in situ prepare hierarchical mesoporous Fe3O4@C nanofoams through pyrolysis of a post-treated MIL-53(Fe) precursor. Well-defined carbon network-encapsulated ultrasmall and uniform Fe3O4 octahedrons can be obtained by controlling the pyrolysis temperature. This unique artificial shows the excellent lithium storage performance. A reversible discharge capacity of 861.9 mAh·g−1 is observed at 0.1 A·g−1 after 300 cycles. Even at a high current density of 1 A·g−1, the reversible discharge capacity can still reach 605.2 mAh·g−1 after 500 cycles. Good rate capability is also observed, as the specific discharge capacities are 833.6, 729.9, 666.8, 643.6 and 635.6 mAh·g−1 at current density of 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 A·g−1, respectively. The attractive electrochemical performance of Fe3O4@C nanofoams should be attributed to the hierarchical foam-like structure, which can effectively relieve the volume change during the lithiation/delithiation process and facilitate fast lithium-ion and electron transport.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21501071, 51805219 and 51902139), the Six Talents Peak Project of Jiangsu Province (Nos. 2016-XNYQC-003 and 2016-XNYQC-008), the Transformation of Scientific and Technology Achievements in Jiangsu Province (No. BA2016162) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019TQ0126).

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    Huan-Huan Li, Ashwani Saini, Ru-Yu Xu, Nan Wang, Xiao-Xin Lv, Long Chen & Hao-Bin Jiang

  2. School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

    Ya-Ping Wang

  3. Jiangsu Chunlan Clean Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd., Taizhou, 225300, China

    Tao Yang

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Li, HH., Saini, A., Xu, RY. et al. Hierarchical Fe3O4@C nanofoams derived from metal–organic frameworks for high-performance lithium storage. Rare Met. 39, 1072–1081 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-020-01466-6

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