Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2016
Recently, molybdenum oxide (MoO2) has been found to be a chemicallystable and relatively inexpensive material for the application as the anode in alithium ion battery [1-5]. We believe the use of MoO2 in batteryapplications has been hindered due to a long, complicated, and multistepsynthesis process. We present a simple one-pot hydrothermal technique tosynthesize MoO2 nanoparticles directly onto a copper (Cu) substrate.
We believe this is a first report of the synthesis of MoO2 directlyonto a Cu substrate, and could lead to the ability to both fabricate othermaterials in a similar manner as well as depositing MoO2 onto othersubstrates. This technique can reduce anode production time by eliminating thecoating process, and also decrease the total amount of chemicals used whencompared to a typical powder synthesis and coating processes. TheMoO2 coated Cu electrode was characterized using Raman Spectroscopy,Grazing Incident X-ray Diffraction (GIXRD) and scanning electron microscopy(SEM) techniques to confirm the composition, crystallinity and structure of thesynthesized MoO2 nanomaterial.