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Hybrid Silicon-Carbon Nanostructured Composites as Superior Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

Show Author's Information Po-Chiang Chen1,  Jing Xu1,  Haitian Chen2,  Chongwu Zhou2( )
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials ScienceUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA90089USA
Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA90089USA
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lithium ion batteries, carbon nanofibers, Amorphous silicon, hybrid nanostructured composite
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Chen P-C, Xu J, Chen H, et al. Hybrid Silicon-Carbon Nanostructured Composites as Superior Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries. Nano Research, 2011, 4(3): 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-010-0081-x
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We have successfully fabricated a hybrid silicon–carbon nanostructured composite with large area (about 25.5 in2) in a simple fashion using a conventional sputtering system. When used as the anode in lithium ion batteries, the uniformly deposited amorphous silicon (a-Si) works as the active material to store electrical energy, and the pre-coated carbon nanofibers (CNFs) serve as both the electron conducting pathway and a strain/stress relaxation layer for the sputtered a-Si layers during the intercalation process of lithium ions. As a result, the as-fabricated lithium ion batteries, with deposited a-Si thicknesses of 200 nm or 300 nm, not only exhibit a high specific capacity of > 2000 mA·h/g, but also show a good capacity retention of over 80% and Coulombic efficiency of > 98% after a large number of charge/discharge experiments. Our approach offers an efficient and scalable method to obtain silicon–carbon nanostructured composites for application in lithium ion batteries.


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Hybrid Silicon-Carbon Nanostructured Composites as Superior Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

Show Author's information Po-Chiang Chen1, Jing Xu1, Haitian Chen2, Chongwu Zhou2( )
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials ScienceUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA90089USA
Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA90089USA

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We have successfully fabricated a hybrid silicon–carbon nanostructured composite with large area (about 25.5 in2) in a simple fashion using a conventional sputtering system. When used as the anode in lithium ion batteries, the uniformly deposited amorphous silicon (a-Si) works as the active material to store electrical energy, and the pre-coated carbon nanofibers (CNFs) serve as both the electron conducting pathway and a strain/stress relaxation layer for the sputtered a-Si layers during the intercalation process of lithium ions. As a result, the as-fabricated lithium ion batteries, with deposited a-Si thicknesses of 200 nm or 300 nm, not only exhibit a high specific capacity of > 2000 mA·h/g, but also show a good capacity retention of over 80% and Coulombic efficiency of > 98% after a large number of charge/discharge experiments. Our approach offers an efficient and scalable method to obtain silicon–carbon nanostructured composites for application in lithium ion batteries.

Keywords: lithium ion batteries, carbon nanofibers, Amorphous silicon, hybrid nanostructured composite

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Received: 06 October 2010
Revised: 13 November 2010
Accepted: 13 November 2010
Published: 01 March 2011
Issue date: March 2011

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

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We acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation (CCF 0726815 and CCF 0702204).

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