Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Tin-graphene tubes as anodes for lithium-ion batteries with high volumetric and gravimetric energy densities

  • Runwei Mo,
  • Xinyi Tan,
  • Fan Li,
  • Ran Tao,
  • Jinhui Xu,
  • Dejia Kong,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Xiang Wang,
  • Chongmin Wang,
  • Jinlai Li,
  • Yiting Peng,
  • Yunfeng Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14859-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Here the authors report a tin anode design by encapsulating tin nanoparticles in graphene tubes. The design exhibits high capacity, good rate performance and cycling stability. Pairing with NMC, the full cell delivers a volumetric energy density twice as high as that for the commercial cell.