TY - JOUR KW - Carbon black; Composite structures; Electrodes; Nanocomposites; Nickel; Transition metal compounds KW - Active material; Discharge capacity; Mesoporous carbon black; Nanocomposite electrodes; Polyanion cathode materials KW - Lithium batteries EP - 471 AV - none JF - Ionics VL - 13 N2 - Nanocomposite electrodes of recently identified polyanion cathode materials comprising Li x M2(MoO4)3 0�?? �??x�??<�??3 M�??=�??Co, Ni and nanosized carbon having ~10 nm particle size were found to show remarkable improvement in their discharge capacity compared to the one prepared with acetylene black. The addition of nanosized carbon as a conductive additive offered improved initial discharge capacity of 121 mAh/g between 3.5-2.0 V vs Li/Li. The cause for such an increase could be firmly attributed to the filling up of the grain-grain contact area of the active material, facilitating the intimate grain-grain contacts in the composite structure leading to enhanced capacity delivery. As for the nanocomposite Li x Co2(MoO4)3, it was found that at least 55% of its first discharge capacity was retained at the end of 20th cycle compared to its analogous counterpart, Li x Ni 2(MoO4)3. © 2007 Springer-Verlag. IS - 6 SP - 467 N1 - cited By 2 Y1 - 2007/// A1 - Begam, K.M. A1 - Michael, M.S. A1 - Prabaharan, S.R.S. ID - scholars233 SN - 09477047 TI - Enhanced cycling properties of transition metal molybdates, Li x M2(MoO4)3 0�??x�??<�??3 M�??=�??Co,Ni: A nanocomposite approach for lithium batteries UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-36448944309&doi=10.1007%2fs11581-007-0140-9&partnerID=40&md5=45056e6a1139e96a657ddfbae5c5b4b1 ER -