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Meso-porous silicon-coated carbon nanotube as an anode for lithium-ion battery

Show Author's Information Won-Sik Kim,  Jonghyun Choi,  Seong-Hyeon Hong( )
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Research Institute of Advanced MaterialsSeoul National University, Seoul, 151-744Republic of Korea
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Si, carbon nanotube (CNT), meso-porous, magnesiothermic reduction, battery
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Kim W-S, Choi J, Hong S-H. Meso-porous silicon-coated carbon nanotube as an anode for lithium-ion battery. Nano Research, 2016, 9(7): 2174-2181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1106-x
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Meso-porous Si-coated carbon nanotube (CNT) composite powders were prepared by combining a sol-gel method and the magnesiothermic reduction process. Meso-porous Si-coated CNT electrodes exhibit excellent cycle and rate performances as anodes in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), which can be attributed to the efficient accommodation of volume change from meso-porous Si structure and the enhanced electrical conductivity from CNT core. This simple synthesis and subsequent reduction process provide a scalable route for the large-scale production of Si-C composite nanostructures, which can be utilized in a variety of applications, such as in photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical cells (PECs), and LIBs.


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Meso-porous silicon-coated carbon nanotube as an anode for lithium-ion battery

Show Author's information Won-Sik Kim, Jonghyun Choi, Seong-Hyeon Hong( )
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Research Institute of Advanced MaterialsSeoul National University, Seoul, 151-744Republic of Korea

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Meso-porous Si-coated carbon nanotube (CNT) composite powders were prepared by combining a sol-gel method and the magnesiothermic reduction process. Meso-porous Si-coated CNT electrodes exhibit excellent cycle and rate performances as anodes in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), which can be attributed to the efficient accommodation of volume change from meso-porous Si structure and the enhanced electrical conductivity from CNT core. This simple synthesis and subsequent reduction process provide a scalable route for the large-scale production of Si-C composite nanostructures, which can be utilized in a variety of applications, such as in photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical cells (PECs), and LIBs.

Keywords: Si, carbon nanotube (CNT), meso-porous, magnesiothermic reduction, battery

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Received: 15 February 2016
Revised: 12 April 2016
Accepted: 17 April 2016
Published: 20 May 2016
Issue date: July 2016

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2012-008226).

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