Mechanistic understanding of pore evolution enables high performance mesoporous silicon production for lithium-ion batteries
Jake Entwistle, Gregory Beaucage, Siddharth V. Patwardhan
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