3D porous flower-like MoS2 grows on carbon cloth and used as anode material for lithium-ion batteries

In this paper, after hydrothermal reaction, 3D porous flower-like 2H-MoS2 microspheres with size distribution of 400–500 nm were uniformly loaded on carbon cloth (CC) fibers to obtain CC/MoS2 composite. As an anode material for LIBs, the obtained CC/MoS2 composite delivers an initial discharge/charge specific capacities of 1872/1680 mAh g−1 at 0.1 A g−1, with the corresponding Coulomb efficiency is as high as 89.7%. Moreover, combine the advantages of CC and MoS2, excellent cycle stability with 1060 mAh g−1 (0.5 A g−1 for 200 cycles) has been obtained. •CC/MoS2 composite has been synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method with carbon cloth (CC) as the substrate.•3D co-crosslinked porous flower-like microspheres are uniformly loaded on 1D CC fibers.•The as-prepared CC/MoS2 composite delivers superior electrochemical activity and structural stability.