Abstract
Silicon has emerged as the most promising high-capacity material for lithium-ion batteries. Waste glass can be a potential low cost and environmentally benign silica resource enabling production of nanosized silicon at the industry level. Windshields are generally made of laminated glass comprising two separate glass bonded together with a layer of polyvinyl butyral sandwiched between them. Herein, silicon/carbon nanocomposites are fabricated from windshields for the first time via magnesiothermic reduction and facile carbonization process using both waste glass and polyvinyl butyral as silica and carbon sources, respectively. High purity reduced silicon has unique 3-dimensional nanostructure with large surface area. Furthermore, the incorporation of carbon in silicon enable to retain the composite anodes highly conductive and mechanically robust, thus providing enhanced cycle stability.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 960 |
| Journal | Scientific reports |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 Dec 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (No. 2016R1A2B2012728 and 2016M3A7B4909318) and by the R&D Center for Valuable Recycling(Global-Top R&BD Program) of the Ministry of Environment.(Project No.: R2– 17_2016002250005). We thank the Korea Basic Science Institute for the technical support.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (No. 2016R1A2B2012728 and 2016M3A7B4909318) and by the R&D Center for Valuable Recycling(Global-Top R&BD Program) of the Ministry of Environment.(Project No.: R2-17-2016002250005). We thank the Korea Basic Science Institute for the technical support.
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