Si nanoparticles seeded in carbon-coated Sn nanowires as an anode for high-energy and high-rate lithium-ion batteries

Liubin Ben; Jin Zhou; Hongxiang Ji; Hailong Yu; Wenwu Zhao; Xuejie Huang

doi:10.1088/2752-5724/ac3257

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Liubin Ben, Jin Zhou, Hongxiang Ji, Hailong Yu, Wenwu Zhao, Xuejie Huang. Si nanoparticles seeded in carbon-coated Sn nanowires as an anode for high-energy and high-rate lithium-ion batteries[J]. Materials Futures, 2022, 1(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ac3257

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Liubin Ben, Jin Zhou, Hongxiang Ji, Hailong Yu, Wenwu Zhao, Xuejie Huang. Si nanoparticles seeded in carbon-coated Sn nanowires as an anode for high-energy and high-rate lithium-ion batteries[J]. Materials Futures, 2022, 1(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ac3257

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Liubin Ben, Jin Zhou, Hongxiang Ji, Hailong Yu, Wenwu Zhao, Xuejie Huang. Si nanoparticles seeded in carbon-coated Sn nanowires as an anode for high-energy and high-rate lithium-ion batteries[J]. Materials Futures, 2022, 1(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ac3257

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Si nanoparticles seeded in carbon-coated Sn nanowires as an anode for high-energy and high-rate lithium-ion batteries

Liubin Ben^1,2,3
Jin Zhou^1,2,3
Hongxiang Ji^1,2,3
Hailong Yu^1,2,3
Wenwu Zhao^1,2,3
Xuejie Huang^1,2,3, ,

Materials Futures, Volume 1, Number 1

Received Date: 2021-09-15
Accepted Date: 2021-10-22
Publish Date: 2021-12-15

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doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ac3257

1 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China;
2 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China;
3 Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China

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This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China (2019B1 21204002). Liubin Ben and Zhou Jin contributed equally to this work.

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High-capacity and high-rate anode materials are desperately desired for applications in the next generation lithium-ion batteries. Here, we report preparation of an anode showing a structure of Si nanoparticles wrapped inside Sn nanowires. This anode inherits the advantages of both Si and Sn, endowing lithiation/delithiation of Si nanoparticles inside the conducting networks of Sn nanowires. It demonstrates a high and reversible capacity of ~1500 mAh g^-1 over 300 cycles at 0.2℃ and a good rate capability (0.2℃-5℃) equivalent to Sn. The excellent cycling performance is attributed to the novel structure of the anode as well as the strong mechanical strength of the nanowires which is directly confirmed by in-situ lithiation and bending experiments.
- anode,
- Si,
- Sn,
- nanowire,
- electrochemical cycling

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