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Inside Cover: One Versatile Route to Three‐Dimensional Graphene Wrapped Metal Cyanide Aerogels for Enhanced Sodium Ion Storage (Chem. Eur. J. 35/2017)
Author(s) -
Bu Fanxing,
Feng Xiaoxiang,
Jiang Tiancai,
Shakir Imran,
Xu Yuxi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201701398
Subject(s) - graphene , materials science , electrochemistry , cathode , electrode , ostwald ripening , nanotechnology , cyanide , sodium ion battery , ion , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , metallurgy , engineering , faraday efficiency
A facile and versatile spatially‐confined Ostwald ripening strategy based on the chemical instability of metal cyanides (MCs) has been developed to synthesize a series of three‐dimensional graphene (3DG) wrapped MC aerogels. The successful integration of MCs into 3DG with such unique encapsulated structures ensures the efficient electron and ion transport throughout the whole electrode, paving the way for MCs as high‐performance electrode materials for electrochemical applications, such as cathode materials for sodium ion batteries with significantly improved rate performance and cycling stability. More information can be found in the Communication by I. Shakir, Y. Xu et al. on page 8358.