title: A novel method to enhance the conductance of transitional metal oxide electrodes.
abstract: Transitional metal oxides hold great potential for high capacity anodes. However, the low electron conductivity of such materials leads to poor cycling stability and inferior rate capability. We reported herein the use of a novel hydrogen plasma technology to improve the conductance of metal oxides, which leads great success in improving the rate performance of CuO nanotube based anodes. This method has the potential to be widely adopted in the field of lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors.
authors.affiliation: The State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Ding Xi Road, Shanghai 200050, China. jingsun@mail.sic.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Ranran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xilai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Lian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Yunfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004566:Electrodes; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D008094:Lithium / Q000737:chemistry; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D003300:Copper; D006859:Hydrogen; D008094:Lithium; C000520:cuprous oxide