Ge/C nanowires as high-capacity and long-life anode materials for Li-ion batteries

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7051-7059

  Liu, Jun ^b   Song, Kepeng ^c   Zhu, Changbao ^b   Chen, Chia Chin ^b   Van Aken, Peter A ^c   Maier, Joachim ^b   Yu, Yan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

anodes; carbon encapsulating; Ge; Li ion batteries; nanowires

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; GERMANIUM; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITY; LI-ION BATTERIES; LI-STORAGE PROPERTIES; LITHIATION/DELITHIATION; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; STABLE DISCHARGE CAPACITY;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84904755379     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501945f     Document Type: Article

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