Silicene: A Promising Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Jincheng Zhuang; Xun Xu; Germanas Peleckis; Weichang Hao; Shi Xue Dou; Yi Du

doi:10.1002/adma.201606716

Silicene: A Promising Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Adv Mater. 2017 Dec;29(48). doi: 10.1002/adma.201606716. Epub 2017 Mar 22.

Authors

Jincheng Zhuang¹, Xun Xu^{1

2}, Germanas Peleckis¹, Weichang Hao^{2

3}, Shi Xue Dou^{1

2}, Yi Du^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2500, Australia.
² Center of Materials Physics and Chemistry, and Department of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
³ BUAA-UOW Joint Research Centre, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.

PMID: 28328167
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201606716

Abstract

Silicene, a single-layer-thick silicon nanosheet with a honeycomb structure, is successfully fabricated by the molecular-beam-epitaxy (MBE) deposition method on metallic substrates and by the solid-state reaction method. Here, recent progress on the features of silicene that make it a prospective anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are discussed, including its charge-carrier mobility, chemical stability, and metal-silicene interactions. The electrochemical performance of silicene is reviewed in terms of both theoretical predictions and experimental measurements, and finally, its challenges and outlook are considered.

Keywords: Dirac fermions; anodes; lithium-ion batteries; silicene; silicon.

Publication types

Review