title: Membranes of MnO Beading in Carbon Nanofibers as Flexible Anodes for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries.
abstract: Freestanding yet flexible membranes of MnO/carbon nanofibers are successfully fabricated through incorporating MnO2 nanowires into polymer solution by a facile electrospinning technique. During the stabilization and carbonization processes of the as-spun membranes, MnO2 nanowires are transformed to MnO nanoparticles coincided with a conversion of the polymer from an amorphous state to a graphitic structure of carbon nanofibers. The hybrids consist of isolated MnO nanoparticles beading in the porous carbon and demonstrate superior performance when being used as a binder-free anode for lithium-ion batteries. With an optimized amount of MnO (34.6 wt%), the anode exhibits a reversible capacity of as high as 987.3 mAh g(-1) after 150 discharge/charge cycles at 0.1 A g(-1), a good rate capability (406.1 mAh g(-1) at 3 A g(-1)) and an excellent cycling performance (655 mAh g(-1) over 280 cycles at 0.5 A g(-1)). Furthermore, the hybrid anode maintains a good electrochemical performance at bending state as a flexible electrode.
authors.affiliation: College of Material Science &Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: College of Material Science &Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Yuxuan
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authors.lastname: Du
authors.affiliation: College of Material Science &Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
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authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, No.28 East Jiangchuan Road, Shanghai, 200241, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yang
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authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jin Zhai Rd, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Shuilin
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authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jin Zhai Rd, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, P. R. China.
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authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jin Zhai Rd, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jin Zhai Rd, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230026, P. R. China.|iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Hefei 230026, China.
authors.forename: Yanwu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: College of Material Science &Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
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authors.lastname: Zhang