Synthesis of porous amorphous FePO4 nanotubes and their lithium storage properties

• Main Authors: Lim, Tuti Mariana, Cai, Ren, Du, Yaping, Zhang, Wenyu, Tan, Huiteng, Zeng, Tao, Huang, Xin, Yang, Hongfen, Chen, Chunping, Liu, Hai, Zhu, Jixin, Peng, Shengjie, Chen, Jing, Zhao, Yuliang, Wu, Haichen, Huang, Yizhong, Xu, Rong, Zhang, Qichun, Zhang, Hua, Yan, Qingyu
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Microelectronics and semiconductor materials::Thin films
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96376; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9945
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Holey pipes: An oil-phase chemical route was used to prepare porous amorphous a-FePO4 nanotubes. In the etching process, Fe2O3 reacted with weak acid, resulting in nanotubes with a pore size of 2–10 nm. The porous nanotubes show good cathode performance in lithium ion batteries owing to their hollow structure and small pore size.