Silicene Flowers: A Dual Stabilized Silicon Building Block for High-Performance Lithium Battery Anodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 7476-7484

  Zhang, Xinghao ^a,b   Qiu, Xiongying ^a   Kong, Debin ^a   Zhou, Lu ^a   Li, Zihao ^a   Li, Xianglong ^a,b   Zhi, Linjie ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

building block; lithium ion battery; silica fume; silicene flower; silicon anode

Indexed keywords

ANODES; BUILDINGS; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SILICA FUME; SILICON; SILICON BATTERIES; STABILITY;

BUILDING BLOCKES; GRAVIMETRIC CAPACITY; INTERFACE INSTABILITY; INTERFACE STABILITIES; LITHIUM BATTERY ANODE; NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON; SILICENE; SILICON ANODE;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 85026215586     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03942     Document Type: Article

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