Porous Ni0.14Mn0.86O1.43 hollow microspheres as high-performing supplementary data.docx

 MACROBUTTON MTEditEquationSection2 Equation Chapter 1 Section 1 SEQ MTEqn \r \h \* MERGEFORMAT  SEQ MTSec \r 1 \h \* MERGEFORMAT  SEQ MTChap \r 1 \h \* MERGEFORMAT Supporting information for Porous Ni0.14Mn0.86O1.43 Hollow Microspheres as High-Performing Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries Zhong Maa, Xianxia Yuan*,a, Lin Lia, Zi-Feng Maa, Lei Zhangb, Liqiang Maic, and Jiujun Zhang*,b a Shanghai Electrochemical Energy Devices Research Center, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China b Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1W5, Canada c State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China * Corresponding authors. Tel: 86-21 Fax: 86-21 E-mail:  HYPERLINK mailto:yuanxx@sjtu.edu.cn yuanxx@sjtu.edu.cn (X. Yuan),  HYPERLINK mailto:jiujun@shaw.ca jiujun@shaw.ca (J.J. Zhang) Fig. S1 SEM images of the Ni0.14Mn0.86CO3 microspheres Fig. S2 XRD pattern of the Ni0.14Mn0.86CO3 microspheres Fig. S3 SEM images of the MnCO3 microspheres Fig. S4 XRD pattern of the MnCO3 microspheres Fig. S5 XRD pattern of the the NiCO3 Fig. S6 XRD pattern of the Ni0.33Mn0.67CO3 Fig. S7 TGA curve of the Ni0.14Mn0.86CO3 microspheres in air atmosphere There are three obvious weight loss steps in the TGA curve of Ni014Mn0.86CO3. The first step below 200 oC may be attributed to the loss of adsorbed water, the second one to the thermal decomposition of Ni0.14Mn0.86CO3 into Ni0.14Mn0.86O1.5 (0.36 Mn2O3/0.14 NiMnO3), and the third one is assigned to the conversion of Ni0.14Mn0.86O1.5 into Ni0.14Mn0.86O1.43 (0.29 Mn2O3/0.14 NiMn2O4)[1]. The particular conversion reactions are as follows: The second step: Ni0.14Mn0.86CO3+ 0.25O2 → 0.14NiMnO3+0.36Mn2O3+CO2↑ The third step: NiMnO3+0.5Mn2O3 →NiMn2O4+ 0.25O2↑ Fig. S8 EDX of the Ni0.1