Exotic reaction front migration and stage structure in lithiated silicon nanowires

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8249-8254

  Wang, Lifen ^a   Liu, Donghua ^a   Yang, Shize ^b   Tian, Xuezeng ^a   Zhang, Guangyu ^a   Wang, Wenlong ^a   Wang, Enge ^b   Xu, Zhi ^a   Bai, Xuedong ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

Author keywords

in situ transmission electron microscopy; lithium ion battery; reaction front; silicon nanowire; stage structure

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU PROCESSING; IONS; LITHIUM METALLOGRAPHY; NANOWIRES; SILICON; TRANSMISSIONS;

HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; HIGH-POWER LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON; REACTION FRONT; SILICON NANO STRUCTURES; SILICON NANOWIRES; STAGE STRUCTURE;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84906696531     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502621k     Document Type: Article

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