PMID- 34515284 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211001 IS - 2040-3372 (Electronic) IS - 2040-3364 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 37 DP - 2021 Oct 1 TI - A novel nanosphere-in-nanotube iron phosphide Li-ion battery anode displaying a long cycle life, recoverable rate-performance, and temperature tolerance. PG - 15624-15630 LID - 10.1039/d1nr05294b [doi] AB - Currently, non-ideal anodes restricts the development of long-term stable Li-ion batteries. Several currently available high-capacity anode candidates are suffering from a large volumetric change during charge and discharge and non-stable solid interphase formation. Here, we develop a novel nanosphere-confined one-dimensional yolk-shell anode taking iron phosphide (FeP) as a demonstrating case study. Multiple FeP nanospheres are encapsulated inside an FeP nanotube through a magnetic field-assisted and templated approach, forming a nanosphere-in-nanotube yolk-shell (NNYS) structure. After long-term 1000 cycles at 2 A g(-1), the NNYS FeP anode shows a good capacity of 560 mA h g(-1), and a coulombic efficiency of 99.8%. A recoverable rate-performance is also obtained after three rounds of tests. Furthermore, the capacities and coulombic efficiency remain stable at temperatures of -10 degrees C and 45 degrees C, respectively, indicating good potential for use under different conditions. FAU - Liu, Jinyun AU - Liu J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6619-3886 AD - Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, P. R. China. jyliu@ahnu.edu.cn. FAU - Zhou, Ting AU - Zhou T AD - Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, P. R. China. jyliu@ahnu.edu.cn. FAU - Wang, Yan AU - Wang Y AD - Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, P. R. China. jyliu@ahnu.edu.cn. FAU - Han, Tianli AU - Han T AD - Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, P. R. China. jyliu@ahnu.edu.cn. FAU - Hu, Chaoquan AU - Hu C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0906-2788 AD - National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, P. R. China. hgzhang@nju.edu.cn. AD - State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. FAU - Zhang, Huigang AU - Zhang H AD - National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, P. R. China. hgzhang@nju.edu.cn. AD - State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20211001 PL - England TA - Nanoscale JT - Nanoscale JID - 101525249 SB - IM EDAT- 2021/09/14 06:00 MHDA- 2021/09/14 06:01 CRDT- 2021/09/13 09:30 PHST- 2021/09/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/09/14 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/13 09:30 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/d1nr05294b [doi] PST - epublish SO - Nanoscale. 2021 Oct 1;13(37):15624-15630. doi: 10.1039/d1nr05294b.