Electrochemical properties of iron oxide nanoparticles as an anode for Li-ion batteries

Subject Areas : Materials synthesis and charachterization

Mohammad Golmohammad ¹ , Farhad Golestanifard ² , Alireza Mirhabibi ³

1 - School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
2 - School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran
3 - School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran Institute for Materials Research (IMR) , University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Received: 2015-09-05 Accepted : 2015-10-15 Published : 2015-12-01

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