Synthesis of Porous Hollow Spheres Co@TiO2-x-Carbon Composites for Highly Efficient Lithium-Ion Batteries.

The hollow TiO2 anode material has received great attention for next-generation LIBs because of its excellent stability, environmental friendly, and low volume change during lithiation/delithiation. However, there are some problems associated with the current anatase TiO2 anode materials in practical application owing to low lithium-ion diffusivity and poor reversible theoretical capacities. The introduction of defects has been turned out to be a significant and effective method to improve electronic conductivity, especially oxygen vacancies. In this paper, a facile hydrothermal reaction and subsequent chemical vapor deposition method were successfully used to fabricate Co@TiO2-x-carbon hollow nanospheres. These results suggest that the synthesized product exhibits good rate performance and superior cycling stability.