@article {46881,
	title = {Room temperature processed in-situ carbon-coated vanadium carbide (VC@C) as a high capacity robust Li/Na battery anode material},
	journal = {Carbon},
	volume = {161},
	year = {2020},
	month = {MAY},
	pages = {108-116},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>3D carbide systems with their robust physical and mechanical properties have always attracted multiple application interests. In this report, we have synthesized a three-dimensional in-situ carbon coated cubic carbide, Vanadium Carbide (VC@C), by a very simple, scalable and cost-effective room temperature mechano-chemical ball-milling procedure and researched its promise as effective anode material for Li and Na ion batteries. We have demonstrated that VC@C shows an impressive initial discharge/lithiation capacity of 1165 mAh g(-1) with a high reversible capacity of 640 mAh g(-1) after 100 charge-discharge cycles at an applied current density of 0.1 A g(-1). We have also found that this material renders a very promising rate performance with significantly low capacity drop after exposing it to variable current densities ranging from 0.05 A g(-1) to 2 A g(-1) with an excellent stability up to 1000 cycles owing to its structural robustness, as verified by post-cycling characterizations. A Li-ion full cell study using LiCoO2 as cathode also showed excellent promise in terms of practical application demonstrating a reversible capacity of 95 mAh g(-1) after 100 cycles. Even for Na insertion/de-insertion VC@C shows a clear promise in terms of capacity, cyclic stability and rate performance. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.</p>
},
	keywords = {3D carbide, In-situ synthesis, Li-ion battery, Post cycling characterization, Room temperature ball milling, Williamson-Hall analysis},
	issn = {0008-6223},
	doi = {10.1016/j.carbon.2020.01.057},
	author = {Mahajan, Mani and Roy, Kingshuk and Parmar, Swati and Singla, Gourav and Pandey, O. P. and Singh, K. and Vaidhyanathan, Ramanathan and Ogale, Satishchandra}
}
