Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 5, Issue 15, Pages 7026-7034Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta01254c
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Funding
- National Materials Genome Project [2016YFB0700600]
- Guangdong Innovation Team Project [2013N080]
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Grants [JCYJ20150626110958181, JCYJ20150518092933435]
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Silicon (Si) is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to its very high lithium storage capacity; however, fragmentation of Si caused by drastic volume change during lithium insertion and extraction leads to serious capacity decay during cycling. In this work, we report a novel method to synthesize an in situ nanocomposite containing Si nanoparticles evenly embedded in an electrically conductive SiOx@C network (Si/SiOx@C) from one single polysiloxane precursor. In our process, Si nanocrystals were reduced from the polysiloxane precursor using a low temperature molten salt reduction method, and carbon segregated out in the SiOx@C phase which evolved during the subsequent pyrolysis. As an anode material for LIBs, the Si/SiOx@C nanocomposite showed a specific capacity up to 1292 mA h g(-1) at a current density of 0.4 A g(-1) and 81.84% capacity retention after 200 cycles. The high capacity and stable performance of Si/SiOx@C as an anode material can be attributed to the continuous SiOx@C matrix which provides reliable mechanical support, electronic and ionic conductivity, and a stable solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI). This work demonstrated the viability of deriving a homogenous nanocomposite from a single polymeric precursor, which creates a promising anode material for next-generation LIBs.
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