Graphene Sandwiched Mesostructured Li-Ion Battery Electrodes.

Adv Mater

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.

Published: September 2016

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  • A new type of Li-ion battery electrode is developed using a structured combination of electrochemically active materials and graphene.
  • The electrodes include a cathode made of V2O5 layered with graphene and an anode of silicon coated in graphene.
  • These electrodes demonstrate impressive performance, with the cathode maintaining strong capacity over 2000 charge cycles with little capacity loss.

Article Abstract

A deterministic graphene-sandwiched Li-ion battery electrode consisting of an integrated 3D mesostructure of electrochemically active materials and graphene is presented. As demonstrations, electrodes with active nanomaterials that coat (V2 O5 @graphene@V2 O5 cathode) or are coated by (graphene@Si@graphene anode) graphene are fabricated. These electrodes exhibit high capacities and ultralong cycle lives (the cathode can be cycled over 2000 times with minimal capacity fade).

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