Effects of Fe3O4 loading on the cycling performance of Fe3O4/rGO composite anode material for lithium ion batteries

Well dispersed Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticle suspensions with grain size of about 9 nm were coprecipitated and then compounded with different amount of GO (graphite oxide) followed by reduction of GO to obtain Fe 3 O 4 /rGO (reduced graphite oxide) composites with different component ratios. The as-obtained Fe 3 O 4 /rGO composites were used as anode materials for lithium ion batteries to investigate the best component ratio of the composite for the cycling performance. Fe 3 O 4 /rGO composite electrode containing 44.9 wt% Fe 3 O 4 displayed the best cycling capacity of above 300 mA h g −1 at 1000 mA g −1 after 100 cycles and it was interesting to find that the trend of impedance spectra of Fe 3 O 4 /rGO electrodes after some cycles of electrochemical reactions can be well related to the overall cycling performances.