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Aligned Carbon Nanotube‐Silicon Sheets: A Novel Nano‐architecture for Flexible Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes
Kun Fu,Ozkan Yildiz,Hardik Bhanushali,Yongxin Wang,Kelly L. Stano,Leigang Xue,Xiangwu Zhang,Philip D. Bradford +7 more
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Aligned carbon nanotube sheets provide an engineered scaffold for the deposition of a silicon active material for lithium ion battery anodes, allowing uniform deposition of silicon thin films while the alignment allows unconstrained volumetric expansion of the silicon, facilitating stable cycling performance.Abstract:
Aligned carbon nanotube sheets provide an engineered scaffold for the deposition of a silicon active material for lithium ion battery anodes The sheets are low-density, allowing uniform deposition of silicon thin films while the alignment allows unconstrained volumetric expansion of the silicon, facilitating stable cycling performance The flat sheet morphology is desirable for battery constructionread more
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Enhanced reversible Li-ion storage in Si@Ti3C2 MXene nanocomposite
Fanyu Kong,Xiaodong He,Qianqian Liu,Xinxin Qi,Dongdong Sun,Yongting Zheng,Rongguo Wang,Yuelei Bai +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Si@Ti3C2 MXene nanocomposite was prepared by simply ultrasonic mixing of commercially available nanosized Si and Ti3C 2 MXene.
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Carbon nanomaterials for flexible lithium ion batteries
TL;DR: In this article, the recent advances of flexible lithium ion batteries based on carbon nanomaterials have been carefully discussed from the viewpoint of material synthesis, structure design and property optimization, and the remaining challenges and promising directions are highlighted to provide the clues for the future study in this booming field at end.
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Rapid, in Situ Synthesis of High Capacity Battery Anodes through High Temperature Radiation-Based Thermal Shock
Yanan Chen,Yiju Li,Yanbin Wang,Kun Fu,Valencia A. Danner,Jiaqi Dai,Steven D. Lacey,Yonggang Yao,Liangbing Hu +8 more
TL;DR: A rapid thermal shock process using high-temperature radiative heating to fabricate a conductive reduced graphene oxide (RGO) composite with silicon nanoparticles, which shows great performance as a Li-ion battery (LIB) anode.
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Extensively interconnected silicon nanoparticles via carbon network derived from ultrathin cellulose nanofibers as high performance lithium ion battery anodes
Jong Min Kim,Valentina Guccini,Kwang-dong Seong,Jiseop Oh,German Salazar-Alvarez,Yuanzhe Piao +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, extensively interconnected silicon nanoparticles using carbon network derived from ultrathin cellulose nanofibers were synthesized, which is an abundant and sustainable material, entangles each silicon nanoparticle and become extensively interconnected carbon network after pyrolysis.
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Chamber-confined silicon-carbon nanofiber composites for prolonged cycling life of Li-ion batteries.
Kun Fu,Yao Lu,Mahmut Dirican,Mahmut Dirican,Chen Chen,Meltem Yanilmaz,Quan Shi,Philip D. Bradford,Xiangwu Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: A flexible and self-supporting carbon-enhanced carbon nanofiber (CNF) structure with vacant chamber to encapsulate Si nanoparticles (vacant Si@CNF@C) showed high flexibility and good electrochemical performance for the potential as flexible electrode for lithium-ion batteries.
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