A facile synthesis of a carbon-encapsulated Fe₃O₄ nanocomposite and its performance as anode in lithium-ion batteries

• Raju Prakash,
• Katharina Fanselau,
• Shuhua Ren,
• Tapan Kumar Mandal,
• Christian Kübel,
• Horst Hahn and
• Maximilian Fichtner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 699–704, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.79

• redox cycle, which would lead to an enhanced cyclic performance as an anode material for LIBs. The electrochemical performance of the [Fe3O4–C] anode has been evaluated with respect to Li metal. Figure 4a shows a typical galvanostatic profile for a [Fe3O4–C] cell cycled between 3.0 and 0.005 V at 93