Description
This thesis outlines the investigation of various electrode materials for Li-ion battery (LIB) applications. Li-ion batteries are widely used in various portable electronic devices owing to their compactness, light weight, longer life, design flexibility and environment friendliness.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- Experimental Techniques.- Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of a Novel MOPOF Cathode, [Li2(VO)2(C2O4)(HPO4)2].- Room Temperature Synthesis of rGO/[K2(VO)2(C2O4)(HPO4)2] for Greener and Cheaper Lithium ion Batteries.- Single Source Precursor Route to Carbon Coated Li3V2(PO4)3 for Cathode and Anode Applications in Lithium ion Batteries.- Synthesis and Electrochemical Studies of a Metastable, Layered Phosphate αI-LiVOPO4.- Single Source Precursor Route to rGO/Sb2S3 nanocomposites for Lithium ion Battery Anodes.- Graphene Wrapped Fe3O4 Nanoparticles as Stable and High Performance Anodes for Lithium ion Batteries.- Conclusions and recommendations for future work.



