Controllable Synthesis of Hierarchical Rose-Like MnCo₂O₄ Spinel as Lithium-Ion Anode Materials.

Hierarchical rose-like structured MnCo₂O₄ spinel was synthesized via a facile solvothermal process using polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as the soft template, which was characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), etc. When evaluated as the anode materials for lithium ion batteries, the as-synthesized MnCo₂O₄ spinel exhibited excellent cycling performance and rate capacity. The initial discharge and charge capacity reached 1502 mA·h·g-1 and 1131 mA·h·g-1 at the current density of 100 mA·g-1 , respectively.