Silicene: A Promising Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries.
Silicene, a single-layer-thick silicon nanosheet with a honeycomb structure, is successfully fabricated by the molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) deposition method on metallic substrates and by the solid-state reaction method. Here, recent progress on the features of silicene that make it a prospective anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are discussed, including its charge-carrier mobility, chemical stability, and metal-silicene interactions. The electrochemical performance of silicene is reviewed in terms of both theoretical predictions and experimental measurements, and finally, its challenges and outlook are considered.
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia.
Jincheng
J
Zhuang
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia.|Center of Materials Physics and Chemistry, and Department of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
Xun
X
Xu
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia.
Germanas
G
Peleckis
Center of Materials Physics and Chemistry, and Department of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.|BUAA-UOW Joint Research Centre, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
Weichang
W
Hao
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia.|Center of Materials Physics and Chemistry, and Department of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
Shi Xue
SX
Dou
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia.|BUAA-UOW Joint Research Centre, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
Yi
Y
Du
Dirac fermions; anodes; lithium-ion batteries; silicene; silicon