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Electrospun Silicon-Based Nanocomposite Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are the most promising energy storage devices owing to their high energy density, high power density as well as long cycle life. For LIBs, silicon is the most promising material due to its high theoretical capacity of 4200 mAhg−1 for Li4.4Si which is about 10 times higher than graphite 372 mAhg−1. The demand for the silicon-based anode material is due to its relatively low working potential making it suitable as anode (~0.5 V vs Li/Li+), abundant in environment and also particularly targeting the large-scale energy storage including electric vehicles and utility grid. However, it has limitations for electrode fabrication, poor cycle life, and a large volume expansion or pulverization are the key challenges to be designed, synthesized and fabrication as electrode, which protects the large volume expansion and gives a robust performance. Electrospinning is the most powerful engineering tailored method that would give the Si@carbon core/shell morphology which resolves the critical issues. Thus, electrospun designed Si@C core–shell materials can reach the high demand of energy storage with an exceptionally long life cycle of the rechargeable Li-ion battery, which resolves the all critical issues of electrode suffering from the volume expansion, scalability, and poor cycling performance.

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Karbhal, I., Parte, G., Patrike, A., Shelke, M. (2021). Electrospun Silicon-Based Nanocomposite Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries. In: Balakrishnan, N.T.M., Prasanth, R. (eds) Electrospinning for Advanced Energy Storage Applications. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8844-0_15

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