Metal-induced crystallization of highly corrugated silicon thick films as potential anodes for Li-ion batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8782-8788

  Qu, Fei ^b   Li, Chilin ^a   Wang, Zumin ^c   Strunk, Horst P ^b   Maier, Joachim ^d  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

lithium ion batteries; metal induced crystallization; nanoarchitecture; silicon anodes; thick films

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; ANODES; CORRUGATED METAL; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SOLID ELECTROLYTES; THICK FILMS;

CONDUCTIVE ADDITIVES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY; LOW-TEMPERATURE CRYSTALLIZATION; METAL-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; NANO-ARCHITECTURE; SILICON ANODE; SOLID ELECTROLYTE INTERPHASE; SPECIFIC CAPACITIES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84902478310     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501570w     Document Type: Article

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