Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 4 (2017) 12328–12332 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOTECHNOLOGY (ICNANO-2016). ICNANO 2016 Synthesis and Characterization of α-MoO 3 /RGO Composite as Anode Material for Li-Ion Batteries Using Spray Drying Combustion Vinay Gangaraju a , Bhargavi D a , Dinesh Rangappa a * a Department of Nanotechnology & Visvesvaraya Center of Nanoscience & Technology, PG Center Bangalore Region, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Muddenhalli, Chikkaballapur, India Abstract In this paper we present a novel method to synthesis a high capacity Molybdenum trioxide/reduced graphene oxide by spray drying combustion technique. MoO 3 /RGO composite material is one of the promising anode materials Li-ion batteries. The resultant product was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microcopy (SEM), Field Emission Scanning electron microcopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Raman Shift and Electrochemical studies. XRD analysis confirms the presence of single Phase-Orthorhombic structured MoO 3 nanoparticle. SEM determines the plate like morphology of the particles of size ~100 – 200nm. TEM confirms the MoO 3 deposition on RGO sheets. Electrochemical study reveals the energy storage capacity greater than 1000mAh/g. © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOTECHNOLOGY (ICNANO- 2016). Keywords: Li-ion battery, MoO 3 , MoO 3 /RGO, Spray drying combustion; 1. Introduction In the present stage lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) play an important role for portable energy storage system market for their high power and energy densities and output to volume ratio [1, 2]. Many efforts have been directed towards * Corresponding author. Tel.: +91-963-276-4659; *Email: dineshrangappa@gmail.com, dinesh.rangappa@vtu.ac.in