A new ternary electrode made from nanostructured silicon nanoparticles, conducting polymer hydrogel and carbon nanotubes developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin in the US might be ideal as an ultrahigh performance lithium-ion battery anode material. The electrode, which can be made using scalable solution-phase synthesis and industrially compatible slurry coating techniques, has outstanding performance – with a reversible discharge capacity of more than 1600 mAh/g over 1000 cycles at a current rate of 3.3 A/g…….
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