Application of metal-based nanomaterials in lithium batteries

Abstract

Due to the current lithium-ion battery performance there are still many deficiencies, battery performance needs to be improved, so people through the synthesis of metal-based nanomaterials, and its application in lithium batteries to improve the electrochemical performance of batteries. This paper summarizes the application of some metal nanomaterials in lithium batteries, such as silver, platinum and gold. These metal nanomaterials can not only be used in the positive electrode as a supported catalyst to solve the problems of low charge and discharge overpotential, insufficient battery capacity, and unstable cycle performance, but also can be used in the anode. Among them, TiO2 nanoparticles used in the anode can enhance lithium ion diffusion and charge transfer, which can provide higher battery capacity, rate performance and cycle stability for lithium batteries. Lithium batteries are expected to become a new generation of all-round use of energy in the future, not only because it is significantly less than the traditional fuel cell pollution to the environment, lithium batteries also have a higher performance limit than fuel cells, so how to improve the capacity of the existing lithium batteries, cycle stability and other performance is the direction that people need to study.