Mesoporous TiO2–B microflowers composed of (1 1 0) facet-exposed nanosheets for fast reversible lithium-ion storage

Abstract

A new method was developed to synthesize nanosheet-assembled TiO2–B microflowers for Li-ion batteries. Significantly higher electrochemical performance of these microflowers compared to other TiO2–B nanostructures was attributed to their hierarchical microstructure and exposed (1 0) facets of the individual nanosheets.