Surface coating mediated swelling and fracture of silicon nanowires during lithiation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 9427-9436

  Sandu, Georgiana ^a   Brassart, Laurence ^a   Gohy, Jean Franҫois ^a   Pardoen, Thomas ^a   Melinte, Sorin ^a   Vlad, Alexandru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Core shell nanostructures; Isotropy; Lithium insertion; Metal coating; Semiconductor nanowires; Silicon anode

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CRACKS; FRACTURE; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; METAL COATINGS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; NICKEL COATINGS; PASSIVATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STABILITY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CORE SHELL NANO STRUCTURES; ISOTROPY; LITHIUM INSERTION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SILICON ANODE;

NANOPILLARS;

EID: 84916635515     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503564r     Document Type: Article

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