Composite Textile Yarn

Research Insights

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) arrays were successfully spun into a yarn followed by Si-loading as active materials, with Li-storage capacity five times that of graphite anodes.

Science Impact

A highly scalable process was developed to produce a mechanically robust and electrically conductive Si-carbon nanotube composite yarn, demonstrating a multitude of materials qualities desirable for electrical energy storage.

References

• Sun et al. Weavable High-capacity Electrodes. Nano Energy (2013) 2, 987. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2013.03.020.
• Wang et al. Nanofabrication Beyond Electronics. ACS Nano (2009) 3(5), 1049. DOI: 10.1021/nn900448g.