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NANO LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 491-495Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl8036323
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- Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford
- U.S. Office of Naval Research
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- National Science Foundation
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship
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Silicon is an attractive alloy-type anode material for lithium ion batteries because of its highest known capacity (4200 mAh/g). However silicon's large volume change upon lithium insertion and extraction, which causes pulverization and capacity fading, has limited its applications. Designing nanoscale hierarchical structures is a novel approach to address the issues associated with the large volume changes. In this letter, we introduce a core-shell design of silicon nanowires for highpower and long-life lithium battery electrodes. Silicon crystalline-amorphous core-shell nanowires were grown directly on stainless steel current collectors by a simple one-step synthesis. Amorphous Si shells instead of crystalline Si cores can be selected to be electrochemically active due to the difference of their lithiation potentials. Therefore, crystalline Si cores function as a stable mechanical support and an efficient electrical conducting pathway while amorphous shells store Li+ ions. We demonstrate here that these core-shell nanowires have high charge storage capacity (similar to 1000 mAhlg, 3 times of carbon) with similar to 90% capacity retention over 100 cycles. They also show excellent electrochemical performance at high rate charging and discharging (6.8 Alg, similar to 20 times of carbon at 1 h rate).
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