Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 2006, Vol. 153, No. 7, pp. A1273–A1278
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Fabrication of Nano/Micro Hierarchical Fe2O3/Ni Micrometer-Wire Structure and Characteristics for High Rate Li Rechargeable Battery
Eiji Hosono,1 Shinobu Fujihara,2 Itaru Honma,1 Masaki Ichihara,3 and Haoshen Zhou1 z
1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Umezono, 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan
2Keio University, 3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
3Material Design and Characterization Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
(Submitted: 8 November 2005; revised: 27 February 2006; published online: 4 May 2006)The nano/micro hierarchical Fe2O3/Ni micrometer wire, which is a low-cost material, as a negative electrode for Li-ion cells with the high specific capacity at high charge/discharge current rate, was fabricated. Nanocrystalline and mesoporous Fe2O3 film was formed on nickel mesh, knitted of nickel micrometer wires, via pyrolytic transformation of FeO(OH)0.29(NO3)0.27(CO3)0.22·0.6H2O film, which was directly deposited on the entire surface of the nickel mesh by chemical bath deposition. The nestlike morphology with nanoflake of iron oxyhydroxide was maintained after the pyrolysis reaction into Fe2O3. Moreover, each nanoflake was constructed by several nanometers particles. This specific hierarchical morphology not only provides ideal electrolyte, lithium ion paths, and electronic paths, but it also reduces both the required diffusion length in the active materials and the effective specific current density. The resultant Fe2O3 negative electrode, which gives a high specific charge/discharge capacity 780 mAh/g with good cycle performance even in a high charge/discharge current rate of 13 A/g, indicates the possibility for an energy storage device with high energy density at high power density. ©2006 The Electrochemical Society
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