Fabrication of nanostructured V2O5via urea combustion for high-performance Li-ion battery cathode†
Abstract
Nanostructured vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) crusts were facilely synthesized via the combustion of a precursor by mixing commercial V2O5 with molten urea. The nanocrusts were transferred to nanorods during further annealing at 630 °C. Both the V2O5 nanocrusts and V2O5 nanorods were used preliminarily as a cathode material for Li-ion batteries. Their electrode performance was highly improved compared to commercial V2O5.