TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing the performance of germanium nanowire anodes for Li-ion batteries by direct growth on textured copper
AU - Geaney, Hugh
AU - Bree, Gerard
AU - Stokes, Killian
AU - Collins, Gearoid A.
AU - Aminu, Ibrahim Saana
AU - Kennedy, Tadhg
AU - Ryan, Kevin M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Herein, textured Cu foil is presented as an attractive current collector substrate for directly grown Ge nanowire (NW) anodes. Compared to planar stainless steel (SS) current collectors, textured Cu led to an increase in achievable mass loading, removal of the requirement for a catalyst deposition step, improved adhesion of the active material and dramatically enhanced capacity retention. When SS and textured Cu foil based anodes with similar areal loadings (∼1.4 mA h cm-2) were compared, the capacity after 250 cycles for textured Cu was 2.7 times higher than the SS anode, illustrating the key role of the current collector.
AB - Herein, textured Cu foil is presented as an attractive current collector substrate for directly grown Ge nanowire (NW) anodes. Compared to planar stainless steel (SS) current collectors, textured Cu led to an increase in achievable mass loading, removal of the requirement for a catalyst deposition step, improved adhesion of the active material and dramatically enhanced capacity retention. When SS and textured Cu foil based anodes with similar areal loadings (∼1.4 mA h cm-2) were compared, the capacity after 250 cycles for textured Cu was 2.7 times higher than the SS anode, illustrating the key role of the current collector.
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U2 - 10.1039/c9cc03579f
DO - 10.1039/c9cc03579f
M3 - Article
C2 - 31210216
AN - SCOPUS:85068313385
SN - 1359-7345
VL - 55
SP - 7780
EP - 7783
JO - Chemical Communications
JF - Chemical Communications
IS - 54
ER -
