Mesoporous silicon sponge as an anti-pulverization structure for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Xiaolin ^a   Gu, Meng ^b   Hu, Shenyang ^a   Kennard, Rhiannon ^c   Yan, Pengfei ^b   Chen, Xilin ^a   Wang, Chongmin ^b   Sailor, Michael J ^c   Zhang, Ji Guang ^a   Liu, Jun ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; LITHIUM ION; NITROGEN; SILICON;

ELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SILICON; SPONGE; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; LITHIATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84903949987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5105     Document Type: Article

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