Vanadium‐Based Nanostructure Materials for Advanced Lithium‐Ion Batteries: A Review

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have evolved as the finest portable energy storage devices for the consumer electronics sector. Considering its commercial viability, extensive investigation into the use of nanostructured materials for advancements in optimal energy storage and transmission for improving the cyclability of LIBs is still underway. In this context, the naturally available transition metal vanadium has obtained more interest than commercial graphite for usage as electrodes and composites in LIB owing to its significant theoretical capability, cycling durability, and power efficiency. In this chapter, several research articles based on sandwich like V 2 O 5 /graphene mesoporous composite, vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ), reduced graphene ball (RGB)–V 2 O 5 (RGB) composite, V 2 O 5 -based electrodes consisting of 1D nanobelts (NBs), and multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-induced vanadium oxide nanosheet composite synthesized via sol–gel technique and subsequent hydrothermal treatment method have been discussed. Additionally, the initial discharge and charge capacities of numerous vanadium-based nanostructured materials have been extensively discussed in light of current improvements in the synthesis and design of these materials. The utilization of vanadium-based nanoparticles (NPs) in LIBs has also been discussed in terms of challenges and future considerations.