Interconnected Silicon Hollow Nanospheres for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes with Long Cycle Life

Yan Yao; Matthew T. McDowell; Ill Ryu; Hui Wu; Nian Liu; Liangbing Hu; William D. Nix; Yi Cui

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Interconnected Silicon Hollow Nanospheres for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes with Long Cycle Life

Yan Yao, Matthew T. McDowell, Ill Ryu, Hui Wu, Nian Liu, Liangbing Hu, William D. Nix, Yi Cui

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Silicon is a promising candidate for the anode material in lithium-ion batteries due to its high theoretical specific capacity. However, volume changes during cycling cause pulverization and capacity fade, and improving cycle life is a major research challenge. Here, we report a novel interconnected Si hollow nanosphere electrode that is capable of accommodating large volume changes without pulverization during cycling. We achieved the high initial discharge capacity of 2725 mAh g-1 with less than 8% capacity degradation every hundred cycles for 700 total cycles. Si hollow sphere electrodes also show a Coulombic efficiency of 99.5% in later cycles. Superior rate capability is demonstrated and attributed to fast lithium diffusion in the interconnected Si hollow structure. © 2011 American Chemical Society.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2949-2954
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	11
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl201470j
State	Published - Jul 13 2011
Externally published	Yes

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