Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2021, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 291-308.DOI: 10.1007/s40195-020-01095-z

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A Review of Metal Silicides for Lithium-Ion Battery Anode Application

Bo Ding1, Zhenfei Cai1, Zishan Ahsan1, Yangzhou Ma1,5(), Shihong Zhang1, Guangsheng Song1(), Changzhou Yuan2(), Weidong Yang3, Cuie Wen4   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Green Fabrication and Surface Technology of Advanced Metal Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, 243000, China
    2School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, China
    3Future Manufacturing Flagship, Commonwealth Science and Industries Research Organization (CSIRO), Melbourne, VIC, 3168, Australia
    4School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia
    5Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China
  • Received:2020-03-18 Revised:2020-06-08 Online:2021-03-10 Published:2021-03-10
  • Contact: Yangzhou Ma,Guangsheng Song,Changzhou Yuan
  • About author:Changzhou Yuan, mse_yuancz@ujn.edu.cn
    Guangsheng Song, song_ahut@163.com;
    Yangzhou Ma, yangzhou.ma@outlook.com;
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    Bo Ding and Zhenfei Cai have contributed equally to this work.

Abstract:

Lithium batteries (LIBs) with low capacity graphite anode (~ 372 mAh g-1) cannot meet the ever-growing demand for new energy electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. It is essential to replace graphite anode with higher capacity anode materials for high-energy density LIBs. Silicon (Si) is well known to be a possible alternative for graphite anode due to its highest capacity (~ 4200 mAh g-1). Unfortunately, large volume change during lithiation and delithiation has prevented the Si anode from being commercialized. Metal silicides are a promising type of anode materials which can improve cycling stability via the accommodation of volume change by dispersing Si in the metal inactive/active matrix, while maintain greater capacity than graphite. Here, we present a classification of Si alloying with metals in periodic table of elements, review the available literature on metal silicide anodes to outline the progress in improving and understanding the electrochemical performance of various metal silicides, analyze the challenges that remain in using metal silicides, and offer perspectives regarding their future research and development as anode materials for commercial LIBs application.

Key words: Li-ion battery, Metal silicides, Anode materials, Electrochemical performance