P-W-BRC-132 Scalable Synthesis of Tin Oxide Nanowires for Lithium-ion Battery Anodes

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Ballroom C (Galt House Hotel)
Tu Nguyen, Arjun Thapa, Venkat Vendra, Gamini Sumanasekera and Mahendra Sunkara, University of Louisville, USA.
We present scalable methods for synthesis of SnO­2 NWs. These SnO­2 NWs were evaluated for lithium-ion battery anode after coating with a thin layer of TiO2. The TiO2 coated SnO2 electrodes exhibited a high capacity retention of 563 mAhg-1 after 30 cycles at the current of 1000 mA/g.

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