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Nanostructured anode materials for lithium ion batteries
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A Review of Nanocarbon-Based Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Renewable and non-renewable energy harvesting and its storage are important components of our everyday economic processes. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), with their rechargeable features, high open-circuit voltage, and potential large energy capacities, are one of the ideal alternatives for addressing that endeavor. Despite their widespread use, improving LIBs’ performance, such as increasing energy density demand, stability, and safety, remains a significant problem. The anode is an important component in LIBs and determines battery performance. To achieve high-performance batteries, anode subsystems must have a high capacity for ion intercalation/adsorption, high efficiency during charging and discharging operations, minimal reactivity to the electrolyte, excellent cyclability, and non-toxic operation. Group IV elements (Si, Ge, and Sn), transition-metal oxides, nitrides, sulfides, and transition-metal carbonates have all been tested as LIB anode materials. However, these materials have low rate capability due to weak conductivity, dismal cyclability, and fast capacity fading owing to large volume expansion and severe electrode collapse during the cycle operations. Contrarily, carbon nanostructures (1D, 2D, and 3D) have the potential to be employed as anode materials for LIBs due to their large buffer space and Li-ion conductivity. However, their capacity is limited. Blending these two material types to create a conductive and flexible carbon supporting nanocomposite framework as an anode material for LIBs is regarded as one of the most beneficial techniques for improving stability, conductivity, and capacity. This review begins with a quick overview of LIB operations and performance measurement indexes. It then examines the recently reported synthesis methods of carbon-based nanostructured materials and the effects of their properties on high-performance anode materials for LIBs. These include composites made of 1D, 2D, and 3D nanocarbon structures and much higher Li storage-capacity nanostructured compounds (metals, transitional metal oxides, transition-metal sulfides, and other inorganic materials). The strategies employed to improve anode performance by leveraging the intrinsic features of individual constituents and their structural designs are examined. The review concludes with a summary and an outlook for future advancements in this research field.
Recent developments in advanced anode materials for lithium-ion batteries
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The rapid expansion of electric vehicles and mobile electronic devices is the main driver for the improvement of advanced high-performance lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The electrochemical performance of LIBs depends on the specific capacity, rate performance and cycle stability of the electrode materials. In terms of the enhancement of LIB performance, the improvement of the anode material is significant compared with the cathode material. There are still some challenges in producing an industrial anode material that is superior to commercial graphite. Based on the different electrochemical reaction mechanisms of anode materials for LIBs during charge and discharge, the advantages/disadvantages and electrochemical reaction mechanisms of intercalation-, conversion- and alloying-type anode materials are summarized in detail here. The methods and strategies for improving the electrochemical performance of different types of anode materials are described in detail. Finally, challenges ...
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This paper offers a comprehensive overview on the role of nanostructures in the development of advanced anode materials for application in both lithium and sodium-ion batteries. In particular, this review highlights the differences between the two chemistries, the critical effect of nanosize on the electrode performance, as well as the routes to exploit the inherent potential of nanostructures to achieve high specific energy at the anode, enhance the rate capability, and obtain a long cycle life. Furthermore, it gives an overview of nanostructured sodium-and lithium-based anode materials, and presents a critical analysis of the advantages and issues associated with the use of nanotechnology.
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Rechargeable batteries are attractive power storage equipment for a broad diversity of applications. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are widely used the superior rechargeable battery in portable electronics. The increasing needs in portable electronic devices require improved Li-ion batteries with excellent results over many discharge-recharge cycles. One important approach to ensure the electrodes’ integrity is by increasing the storage capacity of cathode and anode materials. This could be achieved using nanoscale-sized electrode materials. In the article, we review the recent advances and perspectives of carbon nanomaterials as anode material for Lithium-ion battery applications. The first section of the review presents the general introduction, industrial use, and working principles of Li-ion batteries. It also demonstrates the advantages and disadvantages of nanomaterials and challenges to utilize nanomaterials for Li-ion battery applications. The second section of the review de...
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Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries as an energy storage device have drawn significant attention due to increasing demand especially in transportation, mobile, and renewable energy applications. Despite their wide utilization, the improvement of Li-ion batteries' performance, including the enhancement of energy density, stability, and safety, remains a big challenge to overcome. Carbon nanostructures (1D, 2D, 3D) show potential as the anode materials for Li-ion batteries which possess high stability and Li-ion conductivity, yet they offer low capacity. Contrarily, metalloids and transition metal oxides materials, which show high capacity, suffer low Li-ion conductivity and exhibit volume expansion during charge/discharge. Combining these materials with carbon nanostructures to create carbon-based nanocomposites as the anode materials for Li-ion batteries is considered one of the most lucrative strategies to achieve improved performance. These composites form high stability, high conductivity, and high-capacity anode materials. Furthermore, the addition of heteroatoms to carbon nanostructures also significantly increases capacity. Herein, we intensively discuss several categories of carbon-based nanocomposites and the effect on their properties as well as performance (initial charge/discharge capacity, cycling performance). In addition, several future prospects and challenges are addressed.
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A NiO@C composite anode is prepared through an alternative synthesis route involving precipitation of a carbon precursor on NiO nanopowder, annealing under argon to form a Ni core, and oxidation at moderate temperature to get metal oxide particles whilst retaining carbon and metallic Ni in traces. The electrode reversibly reacts in lithium cells by the typical conversion process occurring in a wide potential range with the main electrochemical activity at 1.3 V vs. Li þ /Li during discharge and at 2.2 V vs. Li þ /Li during charge. The NiO@C material exhibits highly improved behavior in a lithium half-cell compared to bare NiO due to faster electrode kinetics and superior stability over electrochemical displacement, leading to a reversible capacity approaching 800 mAh g À1 , much enhanced cycle life and promising rate capability. The applicability of the NiO@C anode is further investigated in a lithium-ion NiO@C/LiNi1/ 3-Co1/ 3 Mn1/ 3 O 2 cell, which operates at about 2.5 V delivering about 160 mAh g À1 with respect to the cathode mass. The cell exhibits stable response upon 80 cycles at a C/2 rate with coulombic efficiency ranging from 97% to 99%.