Effect of heat treatment on structure and properties of cathode materials for V2O5 lithium-ion batteries

The layered vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) application has a good development potential in lithium-ion battery cathode materials. In this paper, vanadium chloride (VCl3), terephthalic acid, and ethanol were served as crude materials to produce precursors of vanadium-based metal organic frameworks by simple solvothermal method. Porous vanadium oxides were synthesized by heat treatment at different temperatures. The results show that the vanadium pentoxide cathode material has a better electrochemical charge and discharge performance and steady cycle by heat treatment of the precursor at 600 °C. The specific capacity of first discharge of the vanadium pentoxide cathode material obtained by heat treatment at 600 °C reached to 324 mAh/g, and when the current density is 50 mA/g, the capacity retention ratio is still 50.6% after 100 cycles. The capacity retention ratio was increased by 16.6% compared to the heat treatment temperature at 400 °C.