An innovative synthesis of carbon-coated TiO nanoparticles as a host for Na intercalation in sodium-ion batteries.

In this work, an innovative route to synthesize an anatase TiO@C composite is presented. The synthesis was conducted using a soft chemistry microwave-assisted method using titanium(IV) butoxide as a titanium precursor. The residual (un)converted titanium precursor remaining after TiO synthesis was used as a carbon precursor and thermally treated under H to obtain nanoparticles of the TiO@C composite.