Rechargeable lithium batteries have been widely regarded as a revolutionary technology to
store renewable energy sources and extensively researched in the recent several decades …

Renewable energy has become a mandatory pursuit towards solving the world's reliance on
fossil fuels, an environmentally damaging and finite resource. Many renewable energy …

In this growing age of clean energy and the use of power storage to circumvent the use of
traditional fossil fuel technologies, batteries of greater capacity, storage, and power are …

This review provides a summary of the progress in research on various Si-based thin films
as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The lithiation mechanism models, different types …

Silicon is touted as a replacement for the commercially utilized carbon anode in lithium ion
batteries. However, two drawbacks have hindered its use: low electronic conductivity and …

Amorphous Si thin films with different thicknesses were deposited on synthetic graphite
electrodes by using a simple and scalable one-step physical vapor deposition (PVD) …

High Li‐storage‐capacity particles such as alloying‐based anodes (Si, Sn, Ge, etc.) are core
components for next‐generation Li‐ion batteries (LIBs) but are crippled by their intrinsic …

All‐solid‐state thin‐film lithium batteries (TFLBs) are the ideal wireless power sources for on‐
chip micro/nanodevices due to the significant advantages of safety, portability, and …

Due to its high theoretical specific capacity, a silicon anode is one of the candidates for
realizing high energy density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, problems related to bulk …

The effectiveness of electrochemical systems in various applications (eg, energy storage
and conversion, wastewater treatment, ammonia synthesis) is, in essence, dependent on the …