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Meso-porous silicon-coated carbon nanotube as an anode for lithium-ion battery

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Meso-porous Si-coated carbon nanotube (CNT) composite powders were prepared by combining a sol‒gel method and the magnesiothermic reduction process. Meso-porous Si-coated CNT electrodes exhibit excellent cycle and rate performances as anodes in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), which can be attributed to the efficient accommodation of volume change from meso-porous Si structure and the enhanced electrical conductivity from CNT core. This simple synthesis and subsequent reduction process provide a scalable route for the large-scale production of Si-C composite nanostructures, which can be utilized in a variety of applications, such as in photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical cells (PECs), and LIBs.

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Kim, WS., Choi, J. & Hong, SH. Meso-porous silicon-coated carbon nanotube as an anode for lithium-ion battery. Nano Res. 9, 2174–2181 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1106-x

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