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A facile method to prepare graphene-coat cotton and its application for lithium battery

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The free-standing and binder-free electrode materials, cotton/graphene (CGN) composites were prepared via a simple “dipping and freeze-drying” process using raw cotton as the supporting body (platform) and graphene oxide (GO) as the suspension. Then the cotton/GO (CGO) composites were annealed at 1000 °C under an Ar flow conditions to obtain CGN composites. The results show that the CGN structure can protect the cotton framework and have better thermal stable property than the cotton alone. Galvanostatic charge–discharge tests demonstrated that the GO concentration had great effects on their electrochemical performances. The CGN (for the GO with 3 and 5 mg ml−1) provide reversible discharge capacity of 160 mAh g−1 after 100 cycles, which is about 1.5 times higher than that of the cotton alone (115 mAh g−1 after 100 cycles). Excellent electrochemical properties of CGN can be ascribed to its controllable structure with more lithium ion storage sites, high electronic conductivity, and fast ion diffusion velocity. The results suggest that this work develops a simple, cheap, and suitable large-scale production method in the lithium-ion batteries.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China (51172050, 51102060, 51102063,51302050, and 51372052), Shandong Province Young and Middle-Aged Scientists Research Awards Fund (BS2013CL003), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universi-ties (HIT. ICRST.2010009).

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    Xueqian Zhang, Xiaoxiao Huang, Xiaodong Zhang, Jing Liu & Hong Pan

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, WeiHai, 264209, China

    Bo Zhong, Long Xia & Guangwu Wen

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Zhang, X., Huang, X., Zhang, X. et al. A facile method to prepare graphene-coat cotton and its application for lithium battery. J Solid State Electrochem 20, 1251–1261 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3118-6

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