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Optimized ALD-derived MgO coating layers enhancing silicon anode performance for lithium ion batteries

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In this work, atomic layer deposition (ALD), as a novel strategy, has been applied to deposit MgO on nano-sized porous Si (pSi) dendrites obtained by etching Al–Si alloy for LIBs. The reversible specific capacity of pSi@MgO electrode is 969.4 mA h/g after 100 cycles at 100 mA/g between 0.01 and 1.5 V, and it presents the discharge specific capacities of 1253.0, 885.5, 642.4, 366.2, and 101.4 mA h/g at 100, 500, 1000, 2000, and 5000 mA/g, respectively. What is more, it delivers a high reversible capacity of 765.1 mA h/g even at 500 mA/g after 200 cycles. The performance improvement can be attributed to the protection of the MgO layer and built-in space of porous Si for volume expansion upon cycling. These results illustrate that ALD derived coating is a powerful strategy to enhance electrical properties of anode materials with huge volume change for lithium-ion batteries.

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51572194 and 51672189), the Key Projects of Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation of China (14JCZDJC32200), and Tianjin Science and Technology Project (18PTZWHZ00020).

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  1. Tianjin International Joint Research Centre of Surface Technology for Energy Storage Materials, College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China

    Xia Tai, Xifei Li, Jie Xu, Dejun Li & Xueliang Sun

  2. Institute of Advanced Electrochemical Energy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710048, China

    Xifei Li, Alibek Kakimov, Shiyu Li, Wen Liu, Jianwei Li & Xueliang Sun

  3. Nanomaterials and Energy Lab, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Western University London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, Canada

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Tai, X., Li, X., Kakimov, A. et al. Optimized ALD-derived MgO coating layers enhancing silicon anode performance for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Materials Research 34, 2425–2434 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.150

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