Building one-dimensional oxide nanostructure arrays on conductive metal substrates for lithium-ion battery anodes

Lithium ion battery (LIB) is potentially one of the most attractive energy storage devices. To meet the demands of future high-power and high-energy density requirements in both thin-film microbatteries and conventional batteries, it is challenging to explore novel nanostructured anode materials ins...

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Published in:Nanoscale 2011-01, Vol.3 (1), p.45-58
Main Authors: Jiang, Jian, Li, Yuanyuan, Liu, Jinping, Huang, Xintang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anodes
Anodizing
Arrays
Density
Electric Conductivity
Electric Power Supplies
Electrodes
Ions - chemistry
Lithium - chemistry
Lithium-ion batteries
Metals - chemistry
Microorganisms
Nanostructure
Nanostructures - chemistry
Nanowires - chemistry
Oxides - chemistry
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Summary:Lithium ion battery (LIB) is potentially one of the most attractive energy storage devices. To meet the demands of future high-power and high-energy density requirements in both thin-film microbatteries and conventional batteries, it is challenging to explore novel nanostructured anode materials instead of conventional graphite. Compared to traditional electrodes based on nanostructure powder paste, directly grown ordered nanostructure array electrodes not only simplify the electrode processing, but also offer remarkable advantages such as fast electron transport/collection and ion diffusion, sufficient electrochemical reaction of individual nanostructures, enhanced material-electrolyte contact area and facile accommodation of the strains caused by lithium intercalation and de-intercalation. This article provides a brief overview of the present status in the area of LIB anodes based on one-dimensional nanostructure arrays growing directly on conductive inert metal substrates, with particular attention to metal oxides synthesized by an anodized alumina membrane (AAM)-free solution-based or hydrothermal methods. Both the scientific developments and the techniques and challenges are critically analyzed.
ISSN:2040-3364
2040-3372
DOI:10.1039/c0nr00472c