A new member of the CoO structure family: Hexagonal prisms CoO assembled on reduced graphene oxide for high-performance lithium-ion storage capacity

In this research, we use a modified sol-gel method to obtain a pure phase new hexagonal CoO on reduced graphene oxide by leading of polar solvent. In the electrochemical test, the CoO/rGO composite shows a remarkable performance of capacity as an anode of a lithium ion battery. The electrochemistry performance shows that the capacity of the composite can remain at 1300 mAh/g in 100 cycles without damping. The pure phase of CoO and its hexagonal morphology have been characterized by XRD, SEM and TEM.