A universal synthetic route to carbon nanotube/transition metal oxide nano-composites for lithium ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors.
H Zhou,
L Zhang,
D Zhang,
S Chen,
PR Coxon,
X He,
M Coto,
H-K Kim,
K Xi,
S Ding
Aug 16, 2017
We report a simple synthetic approach to coaxially grow transition metal oxide (TMO) nanostructures on carbon nanotubes (CNT) with ready control of phase and morphology. A thin (~4 nm) sulfonated-polystyrene (SPS) pre-coating is...