Yi Cui

TL;DR: This work presents a method for prelithiating a silicon nanowire (SiNW) anode by a facile self-discharge mechanism, and provides a protocol for pairing lithium-free electrodes to make the next-generation high-energy LIB.

TL;DR: A solution processing method to grow large arrays of aligned C(60) single crystals that facilitates the fabrication of large amounts of high-quality semiconductor crystals for fundamental studies, and with substantial improvement on the surface coverage of crystals, this method might be suitable for large-area applications based on single crystals of organic semiconductors.

TL;DR: It was found that crystalline Li(2)S does not form at the end of discharge for all sulfur cathodes studied, and during cycling the bulk of soluble polysulfides remains trapped within the cathode matrix.

TL;DR: A novel electrode design is demonstrated by placing a three-dimensional (3D) oxidized polyacrylonitrile nanofiber network on top of the current collector to guide the lithium ions to form uniform lithium metal deposits confined on the polymer fiber surface and in the 3D polymer layer.

TL;DR: A direct comparison with a cell deposited on the random pyramidal morphology of state-of-the-art zinc oxide electrodes, replicated onto glass using nanoimprint lithography, demonstrates unambiguously that periodic structures rival random textures.