Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

High capacity silicon anodes enabled by MXene viscous aqueous ink

  • Chuanfang (John) Zhang,
  • Sang-Hoon Park,
  • Andrés Seral‐Ascaso,
  • Sebastian Barwich,
  • Niall McEvoy,
  • Conor S. Boland,
  • Jonathan N. Coleman,
  • Yury Gogotsi,
  • Valeria Nicolosi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08383-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Developing thick electrodes could enable high-energy-density Li-ion batteries, however, above a critical thickness, the mass transport issues become dominating. Here the authors show that MXene can serve as a conductive binder leading to thick silicon anodes (up to 450 µm) with high areal capacity.