title: Hierarchical silicon nanowires-carbon textiles matrix as a binder-free anode for high-performance advanced lithium-ion batteries.
abstract: Toward the increasing demands of portable energy storage and electric vehicle applications, the widely used graphite anodes with significant drawbacks become more and more unsuitable. Herein, we report a novel scaffold of hierarchical silicon nanowires-carbon textiles anodes fabricated via a facile method. Further, complete lithium-ion batteries based on Si and commercial LiCoO2 materials were assembled to investigate their corresponding across-the-aboard performances, demonstrating their enhanced specific capacity (2950 mAh g(-1) at 0.2 C), good repeatability/rate capability (even >900 mAh g(-1) at high rate of 5 C), long cycling life, and excellent stability in various external conditions (curvature, temperature, and humidity). Above results light the way to principally replacing graphite anodes with silicon-based electrodes which was confirmed to have better comprehensive performances.
authors.affiliation: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and College of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, P R China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xianfu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Haitian
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhuoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yi-Bing
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Chongwu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Guozhen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shen