The solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI), a layer formed on the electrode surface, is essential
for electrochemical reactions in batteries and critically governs the battery stability. Active …

The severe capacity fade of lithium-ion cells with silicon-dominant anodes has hindered
their widescale commercialization. In this work, we link cell capacity fade to the …

The use of silicon (Si) in the form of nanoparticles is one of the most promising routes for
boosting the capacity of modern Li‐ion batteries. Many parameters influence the …

The solution synthetic method can produce large quantities of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) for
various applications, such as energy storage, texturing and composites materials, etc …

In modern Li-based batteries, alloying anode materials have the potential to drastically
improve the volumetric and specific energy storage capacity. For the past decade silicon has …

Many research works demonstrate that an appropriate size and porosity of Si can effectively
alleviate the problem of large volume change. Although there are many methods to tune the …

The electrochemical characterization of lithium storage materials using the button cell is
commonplace, but it is also tedious and time-consuming. Also, the results are often affected …

In this work, we synthesized highly porous 3D sponge‐like mesoporous (MP)‐Si@ C
composites using mass‐scalable method. The optimized MP− Si@ C 1 composite electrode …

Surface coating strategy has been proved essential for mitigating the large volume change
in the electrodes for lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs), thus …

The binary transition metal oxides have attracted great attention because of their
considerable energy and power densities. However, they suffer from low reaction kinetics …