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An All-Integrated Anode via Interlinked Chemical Bonding between Double-Shelled–Yolk-Structured Silicon and Binder for Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • Yajie Liu
  • , Zhixin Tai
  • , Tengfei Zhou
  • , Vitor Sencadas
  • , Jian Zhang
  • , Lei Zhang
  • , Konstantin Konstantinov
  • , Zaiping Guo*
  • , Hua Kun Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The concept of an all-integrated design with multifunctionalization is widely employed in optoelectronic devices, sensors, resonator systems, and microfluidic devices, resulting in benefits for many ongoing research projects. Here, maintaining structural/electrode stability against large volume change by means of an all-integrated design is realized for silicon anodes. An all-integrated silicon anode is achieved via multicomponent interlinking among carbon@void@silica@silicon (CVSS) nanospheres and cross-linked carboxymethyl cellulose and citric acid polymer binder (c-CMC-CA). Due to the additional protection from the silica layer, CVSS is superior to the carbon@void@silicon (CVS) electrode in terms of long-term cyclability. The as-prepared all-integrated CVSS electrode exhibits high mechanical strength, which can be ascribed to the high adhesivity and ductility of c-CMC-CA binder and the strong binding energy between CVSS and c-CMC-CA, as calculated based on density functional theory (DFT). This electrode exhibits a high reversible capacity of 1640 mA h g<sup>−1</sup> after 100 cycles at a current density of 1 A g<sup>−1</sup>, high rate performance, and long-term cycling stability with 84.6% capacity retention after 1000 cycles at 5 A g<sup>−1</sup>. © 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Original languageEnglish
Article number1703028
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume29
Issue number44
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Nov 2017
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

This research was conducted with the support of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (Y.L.). Support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) through a Future Fellowship project (FT150100109), Auto CRC 2020, Project 1-117, and the Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development Centre (BAJC), Project BA14006, was gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to thank the Electron Microscopy Centre (EMC) at the University of Wollongong for the electron microscopy characterizations, Prof. Dianwu Zhou in Hunan University for the support of the Dmol3 software, and Dr. Tania Silver for critical reading of the manuscript and valuable remarks.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Research Keywords

  • all-integrated electrodes
  • binding energy
  • double-shelled–yolk-structured
  • lithium-ion batteries
  • multicomponent interlinking

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