{"id":143851,"date":"2022-08-10T03:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/amping-up-battery-performance-with-black-glasses-grafted-on-micron-silicon"},"modified":"2022-08-10T03:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:27:50","slug":"amping-up-battery-performance-with-black-glasses-grafted-on-micron-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/amping-up-battery-performance-with-black-glasses-grafted-on-micron-silicon","title":{"rendered":"Amping up battery performance with black glasses grafted on micron silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silicon is the second most abundant element on earth, making up a hefty 27.7% percent of the earth\u2019s crust. Apart from its ability to create sandy beaches and clear glasses, silicon also holds the potential to make highly efficient metal ion batteries.<\/p>\n

In a world where alternative energy storage devices like lithium-ion batteries<\/a> are gaining momentum, there is a need to harness the excellent specific energy capacity of silicon as an electrode material. The commercial application of silicon-based electrode materials<\/a> is often hindered due to two major reasons: 1) lack of mechanical stability arising from uncontrolled volume expansion upon lithiation, the process of combining with a lithium-ion<\/a>, and 2) rapid energy fading caused by the formation of unstable solid-electrode interface (SEI) formation.<\/p>\n

Over the years scientists have developed various advanced silicon-based negative electrodes or anode materials<\/a> to overcome the aforementioned problems. The most prominent among them are silicon nanomaterials. However, silicon nanomaterials come with certain demerits, such as a large demand and supply gap, difficult and expensive synthesis process, and, most importantly, a threat of fast battery dry-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silicon is the second most abundant element on earth, making up a hefty 27.7% percent of the earth\u2019s crust. Apart from its ability to create sandy beaches and clear glasses, silicon also holds the potential to make highly efficient metal ion batteries. In a world where alternative energy storage devices like lithium-ion batteries are gaining [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}