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Nanoscale Heterostructures for Low-Cost, High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries
Approaches toward Silicon-Based High-Capacity Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries The Kumta Lab is developing low-cost methods for producing nanoscale silicon composites as lithium-ion anodes. These...
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In-situ SEM: Seeing Battery Cycling in Action
Real-time Observation of Morphology Changes in SiOx Anodes for Lithium-ion Batteries The Zaghib Group at Hydro-Québec has used in situ SEM to see SiOx particles grow and shrink during cycling. SiOx is...
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From Particles to Wires: Shaping Silicon Cyclability
Understanding volume change and conductivity in Si nanostructures for Li-ion anodes Silicon is a promising next-generation anode material for high-energy lithium-ion batteries due to its high specific...
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Conductive Polymer Binder Improves Silicon Anode Cyclability
Gao Liu at LBNL has developed a new kind of composite anode based on silicon that can absorb eight times the lithium of current Li-ion batteries and maintains a high capacity of 2100 mAh/g in Si after...
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Silicon Anode Architecture
Karim Zaghib, Hydro Quebec (Montreal, Canada) The objective of this project is to develop high-capacity, low-cost electrodes with good cycle stability to replace graphite in Li-ion batteries. The...
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Silicon-carbon (Si-C) Composite as High Performance Anode Materials for...
Silicon has attracted considerable interest as a high-capacity anode material for Li-ion batteries, owing to its high specific capacity of 3580 mAh/g at room temperature, which is about 10 times larger...
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Low-Cost and High-Mass-Loading Silicon Anode from Rice Husks
Yi Cui, Stanford University Silicon anodes could store 10 times more capacity than the graphite anodes in today’s rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but they also have major drawbacks: the cycle life...
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