Stable Li-ion battery anodes by in-situ polymerization of conducting hydrogel to conformally coat silicon nanoparticles

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wu, Hui ^a,b   Yu, Guihua ^c   Pan, Lijia ^a,d   Liu, Nian ^a   McDowell, Matthew T ^a   Bao, Zhenan ^a   Cui, Yi ^a,e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; LITHIUM ION; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PHYTIC ACID; POLYANILINE; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

HYDROGEN; ION; LITHIUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; RESEARCH WORK; SILICON;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATION; CROSS LINKING; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HYDROGEL; HYDROGEN BOND; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84901467517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2941     Document Type: Article

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