Capacity retention behavior and morphology evolution of SixGe1-x nanoparticles as lithium-ion battery anode

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 25, 2015, Pages

  Ge, Mingyuan ^a   Kim, Seongbeom ^b,c   Nie, Anmin ^d   Shahbazian Yassar, Reza ^d   Mecklenburg, Matthew ^e   Lu, Yunhao ^f   Fang, Xin ^a   Shen, Chenfei ^a   Rong, Jiepeng ^a   Yi Park, Song ^b   Suk Kim, Dong ^g   Young Kim, Jin ^b   Zhou, Chongwu ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c the State University of New York   (United States)

^d Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

lithium ion battery anode; SiGe alloy; structure evolution

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ANODES; BINARY ALLOYS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; GERMANIUM; IONS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNS; CYCLIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTRODE PERFORMANCE; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODES; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; SI-GE ALLOYS; STRUCTURE EVOLUTION;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84931271837     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/25/255702     Document Type: Article

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