dc.contributor.author | Das, Susobhan | |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Jun | |
dc.contributor.author | Hui, Rongqing | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-05T18:11:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-05T18:11:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Das, S., Li, J., & Hui, R. (2015). Simulation of the impact of Si shell thickness on the performance of Si-coated vertically aligned carbon nanofiber as Li-ion battery anode. Nanomaterials, 5(4), 2268-2278. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22137 | |
dc.description.abstract | Micro- and nano-structured electrodes have the potential to improve the performance of Li-ion batteries by increasing the surface area of the electrode and reducing the diffusion distance required by the charged carriers. We report the numerical simulation of Lithium-ion batteries with the anode made of core-shell heterostructures of silicon-coated carbon nanofibers. We show that the energy capacity can be significantly improved by reducing the thickness of the silicon anode to the dimension comparable or less than the Li-ion diffusion length inside silicon. The results of simulation indicate that the contraction of the silicon electrode thickness during the battery discharge process commonly found in experiments also plays a major role in the increase of the energy capacity. | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0). | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Li-ion batteries | en_US |
dc.subject | battery performance | en_US |
dc.subject | nanostructures | en_US |
dc.subject | numerical simulations | en_US |
dc.subject | silicon anode | en_US |
dc.subject | carbon nanowires | en_US |
dc.title | Simulation of the Impact of Si Shell Thickness on the Performance of Si-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber as Li-Ion Battery Anode | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Hui, Rongqing | |
kusw.kuauthor | Das, Susobhan | |
kusw.kudepartment | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/nano5042268 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |