A Commercial Conducting Polymer as Both Binder and Conductive Additive for Silicon Nanoparticle-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Negative Electrodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 3702-3713

  Higgins, Thomas M ^a   Park, Sang Hoon ^a   King, Paul J ^a,b   Zhang, Chuanfang ^a   McEvoy, Niall ^a   Berner, Nina C ^a   Daly, Dermot ^a   Shmeliov, Aleksey ^a   Khan, Umar ^a   Duesberg, Georg ^a   Nicolosi, Valeria ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

anode; battery; binder; conducting additive; conducting polymer; negative electrode; PEDOT:PSS; silicon

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ANODES; BINDERS; BINS; CARBON; CARBON BLACK; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; SILICON;

BATTERY; CONDUCTING ADDITIVES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE PRODUCTION; LITHIATION/DELITHIATION; NEGATIVE ELECTRODE; PEDOT:PSS; SILICON NANOPARTICLES;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84961912361     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00218     Document Type: Article

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