Advanced Transition Metal-Based Anode Materials and their Composites for Lithium Ion Battery Application

In this thesis, conversion type anode materials including transition metal oxides (MoO3, MoO2,WOx), disulfides (WS2) and the insertion reaction-based carbides with MXene-structure (Ti3C2,Nb2C, V2C), as well as their composites, were investigated as potential anode materials for next generation lithium ion batteries (LIBs). MXenes were prepared by an selective etching-based process. When used as anode materials forLIBs, the synthesized MXenes electrodes exhibit excellent cycling stability due to their high electronic conductivity, layered structure as well as good mechanical properties. In order toimprove the specific capacity (