Copper-Nanoparticle-Induced Porous Si/Cu Composite Films as an Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries
- 11 July 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in ACS Nano
- Vol. 11 (7), 6893-6903
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02030
Abstract
Welcome mat like porous Si/Cu composite amorphous films are fabricated by applying the pre-deposited Cu nanoparticle-assembled film as the growth direction template for the subsequent deposition of Si active layer with cluster beam deposition technique. When used as the binder-free anodes for lithium ion batteries, the acquired single-layer porous Si/Cu composite film exhibits a large reversible capacity of 3124 mA h g-1 after 1000 cycles at 1 A g-1. Even cycled at 20 A g-1 for 450 cycles, the porous Si/Cu composite film still delivers a decent reversible capacity of 2086 mA h g-1. Also, multilayer porous Si/Cu composite films are synthesized through layer by layer sputtering and exhibit outstanding cyclability, relative high specific capacity and initial Coulombic efficiency irrespective of increasing the layer number from two to four layers. The reasons for the excellent electrochemical properties of single-layer and multilayer porous Si/Cu composite films are discussed detailedly.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (20720160082)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2016YFA020602)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51371154, 51571167)
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