Palladium- and gold-nanoparticle-modified porous carbon as a high-power anode for lithium-ion batteries.

In this line, an attempt has beenmade for the decoration of such porous carbons by Au and Pdnanoparticles with a view to identify the novel electrode mate-rials by improving the performances such as high specific ca-pacity at high current rate without compromising the cyclabili-ty. A facile chemical reduction process is employed to decoratethe metallic nanoparticles (Au/Pd) with a controlled amount of5 wt.% over commercially available porous carbons. Themetal-nanoparticle-decorated powders are subjected to vari-ous electrochemical characterizations in a half-cell configura-tion, as described in detail herein.