Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the most important electrochemical energy storage devices
due to their high energy density, long cycle life, and low cost. During the past decades, many …

In 1991, Iijima reported on the formation of carbon nanotubes (1) using a simple arc
discharge reaction that led to an arrangement of the material in some micrometer long tubes …

Since the ability of ionic liquid (IL) was demonstrated to act as a solvent or an electrolyte, IL-
based electrolytes have been widely used as a potential candidate for renewable energy …

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are undeniably the most promising system for storing electric
energy for both portable and stationary devices. A wide range of materials for anodes is …

Ionic liquids are often named solvents of the future because of flexibility in design. This
statement has given credence that ionic liquids should simply replace the problematic …

The lithium ion battery (LIB) has proven to be a very reliably used system to store electrical
energy, for either mobile or stationary applications. Among others, TiO2-based anodes are …

Self‐organized, anodically grown titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotubes have been readily
studied as anode material in various ion batteries. The simple way of nanostructuring via …

Since several years, research for high capacity anode materials in Li-ion batteries is
addressed to titanium dioxide (TiO2), which offers important advantages in terms of cost …

Electrode material characteristics need to be improved urgently to fulfill the requirements for
high performance lithium ion batteries. Herein, we report the use of the two-phase alloy …

Thin silicon layers containing about 20% carbon and 20% oxygen were deposited on
copper substrates by potentiostatic electroreduction from a 1 M SiCl 4 1-butyl-1-methyl …