(St. Louis, MO, USA) with all analytical grades and used without further purification. 2.2. Fabrication of Nanocrystalline Cellulose-Supported Iron Oxide Composite The composite precursor was composited from mixtures of NCC, FeCl2·4H2O, and C6H5Na3O7·2H2O by using ethanol and deionized (DI)...
Mechanical milling was conducted using Li2S, P2S5, and LiCl (Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA), 99.9%), with 10 mm diameter ZrO2 balls (15 balls), in a 45 mL ZrO2 pot at 600 rpm (20 h). For the preparation of sulfide SE solutions, the as-synthetized 80Li2S·20P2S5 and Li6...
Silicon is an attractive anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) because of its natural abundance and excellent theoretical energy density. However, Si-based electrodes are difficult to commercialize because of their significant volume changes du
The same procedure was performed to prepare the N,S-rGO aerogel; however, NH3 was replaced with L-cysteine (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) as a nitrogen/sulphur source and denoted as Mn3O4/N,S-rGO aerogel. 2.2. Physical Characterisation The structural phases of the obtained samples...
In a typical synthesis, poly(vinyl alcohol) (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA, MW: 146,000) and poly(acrylic acid) (Sigma-Aldrich, MW: 450,000) were weighed in a 1:1 ratio and dissolved individually in 5 mL deionized water assisted by ultrasonic agitation (1 h). Then, the soluti...
To check for the presence of boron in the coating layer, the coated powders were analysed using XPS (Thermo Scientific K-Alpha plus, Waltham, MA, USA). They were etched during the analysis using an Ar ion gun to obtain a depth profile of the XPS spectra. The impedances of the prepared...
Bis(methylcyclopentadienyl) nickel (II) (Sigma-Aldrich, 97%, St. Louis, MO, USA) and bis(cyclopentadienyl) nickel (II) (Sigma-Aldrich, 99%) were used as the nickel-containing precursors. Precursors were kept in stainless-steel bottles (PicohotTM 200, Picosun Oy, Espoo, Finland) and ...