Silicon Derived from Glass Bottles as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Full Cell Batteries

Changling Li; Chueh Liu; Wei Wang; Zafer Mutlu; Jeffrey Bell; Kazi Ahmed; Rachel Ye; Mihrimah Ozkan; Cengiz S. Ozkan

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01086-8

Scientific Reports (Apr 2017)

Silicon Derived from Glass Bottles as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Full Cell Batteries

Changling Li,
Chueh Liu,
Wei Wang,
Zafer Mutlu,
Jeffrey Bell,
Kazi Ahmed,
Rachel Ye,
Mihrimah Ozkan,
Cengiz S. Ozkan

Affiliations

Changling Li: Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California
Chueh Liu: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of California
Wei Wang: Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California
Zafer Mutlu: Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California
Jeffrey Bell: Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California
Kazi Ahmed: Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California
Rachel Ye: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of California
Mihrimah Ozkan: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Chemistry, University of California
Cengiz S. Ozkan: Materials Science and Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01086-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

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Abstract Every year many tons of waste glass end up in landfills without proper recycling, which aggravates the burden of waste disposal in landfill. The conversion from un-recycled glass to favorable materials is of great significance for sustainable strategies. Recently, silicon has been an exceptional anode material towards large-scale energy storage applications, due to its extraordinary lithiation capacity of 3579 mAh g−1 at ambient temperature. Compared with other quartz sources obtained from pre-leaching processes which apply toxic acids and high energy-consuming annealing, an interconnected silicon network is directly derived from glass bottles via magnesiothermic reduction. Carbon-coated glass derived-silicon (gSi@C) electrodes demonstrate excellent electrochemical performance with a capacity of ~1420 mAh g−1 at C/2 after 400 cycles. Full cells consisting of gSi@C anodes and LiCoO2 cathodes are assembled and achieve good initial cycling stability with high energy density.

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ISSN: 2045-2322 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/srep/

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