Antimony (Sb)-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Recent Advances

To mitigate the use of fossil fuels and maintain a clean and sustainable environment, electrochemical energy storage systems are receiving great deal of attention, especially rechargeable batteries. This is also associated with the growing demand for electric vehicles, which urged the automotive industries to explore the capacities of new materials for use in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Graphite is still employed as an anode in large majority of currently available commercial LIBs preserving their better cyclic stability despite enormous research efforts to identify viable alternatives with improved power and energy density. From this point of view, antimony acts as a promising material because it has good theoretical capacity, high volumetric capacity, good reactivity with lithium and good electronic conductivities. Recently, there have been many works that focused on the development of antimony as an alternative anode. This review tries to give a bird's eye view comprising the experimental and theoretical insights on the developments in the direction of using antimony and antimony composites as anodes for rechargeable Li.

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This paper discusses the increasing attention towards electrochemical energy storage systems, especially rechargeable batteries, to mitigate the use of fossil fuels and maintain a clean environment. Although graphite is still widely used as the anode in commercial LIBs, antimony is seen as a promising alternative material with potential benefits.