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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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Simultaneous Encapsulation of Nano-Si in Redox Assembled rGO Film as Binder-Free Anode for Flexible/Bendable Lithium-Ion Batteries.
Xin Cai,Wen Liu,Zhongqiang Zhao,Simeng Li,Siyuan Yang,Shengsen Zhang,Qiongzhi Gao,Xiaoyuan Yu,Hongqiang Wang,Yueping Fang +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a freestanding flexible electrode of Si/graphene films is proposed, which is fabricated through a scalable, zinc-driven redox layer-by-layer assembly process.
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All-Component Transient Lithium-Ion Batteries
Kun Kelvin Fu,Zhengyang Wang,Chaoyi Yan,Zhen Liu,Yonggang Yao,Jiaqi Dai,Emily Hitz,Yibo Wang,Wei Luo,Yanan Chen,Kim Myeongseob,Liangbing Hu +11 more
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Over 99.6 wt%-pure, sub-millimeter-long carbon nanotubes realized by fluidized-bed with careful control of the catalyst and carbon feeds
TL;DR: In this article, an internal heat-exchange reactor for fluidized-bed chemical vapor deposition (FBCVD) was proposed and developed, which enabled sufficient heating of reaction gas and uniform heating of the bed of alumina beads at a space velocity as high as 3600h−1.
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Free-standing N-doped carbon nanofibers/carbon nanotubes hybrid film for flexible, robust half and full lithium-ion batteries
TL;DR: In this article, a free-standing N-doped carbon films with hierarchical structure of carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes (CNFs/CNTs hybrids) are prepared via a simple electrospinning process.
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One-Dimensional Porous Silicon Nanowires with Large Surface Area for Fast Charge⁻Discharge Lithium-Ion Batteries.
TL;DR: In this study, one-dimensional porous silicon nanowire (1D–PSiNW) arrays were fabricated by one-step metal-assisted chemical etching to etch phosphorus-doped silicon wafers to achieve fast charge–discharge performance for lithium ion batteries.
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