Growth of conformal graphene cages on micrometre-sized silicon particles as stable battery anodes

Nature Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Li, Yuzhang ^a   Yan, Kai ^a   Lee, Hyun Wook ^a   Lu, Zhenda ^a   Liu, Nian ^b   Cui, Yi ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; SILICON; SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

CAPACITY RETENTION; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICAL CONNECTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CYCLING; ELECTROCHEMICAL TEST; GALVANOSTATIC CYCLING; MULTI-LAYERED GRAPHENE; SOLID ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES;

SILICON BATTERIES;

EID: 85079544577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2015.29     Document Type: Article

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