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The Development of Si and Ge-Based Nanomaterials for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anodes

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Silicon-based Nanomaterials

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Silicon and germanium are among the most promising anode materials for high performance lithium ion batteries, due to their unprecedented high capacities. In recent few years, increasingly enormous efforts have been dedicated to these two important anodes, leading to significant improvement in their cycling life, practical capacity, rate capability, and coulombic efficiency. Nanostructuring is playing a crucial role in enabling the improvement and will lead to their widespread use in various battery markets. Nanoscale particles can better tolerate the wild volume change upon cycling and maintain their integrity than micron-sized particles. They can also shorten the diffusion distance of lithium ions and electrons and thus have high capacity. Further, one-dimensional nanowires exhibit superior stress behavior and electron transport. Porous and hierarchical nanostructures can provide extra space to accommodate the volume change. Wisely manipulating these handles have produced impressively better-performing systems. Porous single-crystal silicon nanowires have shown more stable capacity than solid nanowires. Hierarchical porous amorphous \(\mathrm{{GeO}}_\mathrm{x}\) is another system with very long cycle life and high capacity.

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We thank our colleagues Drs. J. J. Chen, J. Graetz, M. Feygenson, M. C. Aronson, H. Y. Chen, C. H. Lin, W. Ku, J. M. Bai, T. A. Tyson, X. Q. Yu, X. J. Wang, and X. Q. Yang for their helpful advice. We also are grateful to Dr. H. Li (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Drs. J. Hong, F. Wang, L. H. Zhang, L. J. Wu. and C. Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory) for their technical support and valuable discussions.

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Wang, XL., Han, WQ. (2013). The Development of Si and Ge-Based Nanomaterials for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Anodes. In: Li, H., Wu, J., Wang, Z. (eds) Silicon-based Nanomaterials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 187. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8169-0_2

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