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Mechanistic understanding of pore evolution enables high performance mesoporous silicon production for lithium-ion batteries

Jake Entwistle, Gregory Beaucage, Siddharth V. Patwardhan

2020Journal of Materials Chemistry A42 citationsDOI

Abstract

We show that the interconnectivity of silicon crystallites determines the final mesoporosity. Applying this mechanism to bioinspired silica enabled us to produce mesoporous silicon with a capacity of 2170 mA h g<sup>−1</sup>after 100 cycles.

Topics & Concepts

InterconnectivitySiliconMesoporous materialLithium (medication)Materials scienceIonNanotechnologyChemical engineeringChemistryComputer scienceOptoelectronicsCatalysisEngineeringOrganic chemistryMedicineArtificial intelligenceEndocrinologyAdvancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationExtraction and Separation Processes