Surface-coating regulated lithiation kinetics and degradation in silicon nanowires for lithium ion battery

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 5559-5566

  Luo, Langli ^a   Yang, Hui ^b   Yan, Pengfei ^a   Travis, Jonathan J ^c   Lee, Younghee ^c   Liu, Nian ^d   Molina Piper, Daniela ^c   Lee, Se Hee ^c   Zhao, Peng ^b   George, Steven M ^c   Zhang, Ji Guang ^e   Cui, Yi ^d,f   Zhang, Sulin ^b   Ban, Chunmei ^g   Wang, Chong Min ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

in situ TEM; lithium ion battery; Silicon nanowire; surface coating

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; CARBON; COATED MATERIALS; COATINGS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; IN SITU PROCESSING; IONS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SILICON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE; IN SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM); IN-SITU TEM; MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; SI NANOWIRES (SINWS); SILICON NANOWIRES; SURFACE COATINGS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84930679336     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01681     Document Type: Article

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