An artificial sea urchin with hollow spines : improved mechanical and electrochemical stability in high-capacity Li-Ge batteries

Metallic germanium (Ge) as the anode can deliver a high specific capacity and high rate capability in lithium ion batteries. However, the large volume expansion largely restrains its further application. Herein, we constructed a three-dimensional sea urchin structure consisting of double layered Ge/TiO2 nanotubes as the spines via a ZnO template-removing method, which displays a capacity as high as 1060 mA h g-1 over 130 cycles. The robust, hollow oxide backbone serves as a strong support to accommodate the morphological change of Ge while the enhanced electron-transfer kinetics is attributed to the Ge content and the intimate contact between Ge and TiO2 during charging/discharging, which were confirmed using in situ transmission electronic microscopy observations and first-principles simulations. In addition, a high capacity retention of batteries using this hybrid composite as the anode was also achieved at low temperature.

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2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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Nanoscale - 12(2020), 10 vom: 14. März, Seite 5812-5816

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Englisch

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Liu, Jinyun [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Xirong [VerfasserIn]
Han, Tianli [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Qianqian [VerfasserIn]
Long, Jiawei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Huigang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Niu, Junjie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jinjin [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 13.03.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1039/c9nr09107f

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NLM305716646