Journal Browser

► Journal Browser

New Perspectives for the Development of Li-Ion Batteries of the 21st Century

Share This Special Issue

Special Issue Editors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Lithium-ion batteries represent one of the most outstanding advances in energy storage systems of recent times. The combination of electrochemically active materials and conductive carbonaceous materials for the manufacture of nanocomposite electrodes provides lithium-ion batteries with high capacity, excellent cycling stability, power density, and lightweight. The potential applications are vast, but they are particularly focused on electronic materials, computers, mobile phones, and other portable systems. The technology involved in these systems, especially when high performance is needed, is still excessively expensive, which has meant a certain limitation for its widespread use. In recent years, there have been many advances related to stability, performance or durability, thanks, among other things, to the incorporation of new nanostructured materials. These include carbon nanotubes, nanowires, and two-dimensional materials such as graphene, graphitic compounds, or other layered materials, among others.

This Special Issue aims to provide significant contributions that impact on the advances in the synthesis, optimization, and characterization of nanostructured materials, with application to the development of both anodes and cathodes of high-performance lithium-ion batteries. The final goal is to have a global vision of the state-of-the-art related to the most advanced materials that could represent a significant improvement of the energy storage systems of the 21st century.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Márquez
Prof. Dr. Carmen Morant
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Nanomaterials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes, nanowires, and two-dimensional materials
synthesis, optimization, and characterization of nanostructured materials
application in high-performance lithium-ion batteries

Published Papers (2 papers)

Download All Papers

Order results

Result details

Show export options Show export options

Select all

Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

13 pages, 10380 KiB

Open AccessArticle

0D-1D Hybrid Silicon Nanocomposite as Lithium-Ion Batteries Anodes

by Sergio Pinilla, Sang-Hoon Park, Kenneth Fontanez, Francisco Márquez, Valeria Nicolosi and Carmen Morant

Nanomaterials 2020, 10(3), 515; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030515 - 12 Mar 2020

Cited by 8 | Viewed by 4182

Abstract

Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are the enabling technology for many of the societal changes that are expected to happen in the following years. Among all the challenges for which LIBs are the key, vehicle electrification is one of the most crucial. Current battery materials cannot provide the required power densities for such applications and therefore, it makes necessary to develop new materials. Silicon is one of the proposed as next generation battery materials, but still there are challenges to overcome. Poor capacity retention is one of those drawbacks, and because it is tightly related with its high capacity, it is a problem rather difficult to address with common and scalable fabrication processes. Here we show that combining 0D and 1D silicon nanostructures, high capacity and stability can be achieved even using standard electrode fabrication processes. Capacities as high as 1200 mAh/g for more than 500 cycles at high current densities (2 A/g) were achieved with the produced hybrid 0D/1D electrodes. In this research, it was shown that while 0D nanostructures provide good strain relaxation capabilities, 1D nanomaterials contribute with enhanced cohesion and conductive matrix integrity. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives for the Development of Li-Ion Batteries of the 21st Century)

► Show Figures

Figure 1

15 pages, 6658 KiB

Open AccessArticle

Characterization of Sn₄P₃–Carbon Composite Films for Lithium-Ion Battery Anode Fabricated by Aerosol Deposition

by Toki Moritaka, Yuh Yamashita, Tomohiro Tojo, Ryoji Inada and Yoji Sakurai

Nanomaterials 2019, 9(7), 1032; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9071032 - 19 Jul 2019

Cited by 13 | Viewed by 5264

Abstract

We fabricated tin phosphide–carbon (Sn₄P₃/C) composite film by aerosol deposition (AD) and investigated its electrochemical performance for a lithium-ion battery anode. Sn₄P₃/C composite powders prepared by a ball milling was used as raw material and deposited onto a stainless steel substrate to form the composite film via impact consolidation. The Sn₄P₃/C composite film fabricated by AD showed much better electrochemical performance than the Sn₄P₃ film without complexing carbon. Although both films showed initial discharge (Li⁺ extraction) capacities of approximately 1000 mAh g⁻¹, Sn₄P₃/C films retained higher reversible capacity above 700 mAh g⁻¹ after 100 cycles of charge and discharge processes while the capacity of Sn₄P₃ film rapidly degraded with cycling. In addition, by controlling the potential window in galvanostatic testing, Sn₄P₃/C composite film retained the reversible capacity of 380 mAh g⁻¹ even after 400 cycles. The complexed carbon works not only as a buffer to suppress the collapse of electrodes by large volume change of Sn₄P₃ in charge and discharge reactions but also as an electronic conduction path among the atomized active material particles in the film. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives for the Development of Li-Ion Batteries of the 21st Century)

► Show Figures

Journal Menu

Journal Browser

New Perspectives for the Development of Li-Ion Batteries of the 21st Century

Share This Special Issue

Special Issue Editors

Special Issue Information

Keywords

Published Papers (2 papers)

Research

Further Information

Guidelines

MDPI Initiatives

Follow MDPI