Mesoporous germanium as anode material of high capacity and good cycling prepared by a mechanochemical reaction

Catalytic Role of Ge in Highly Reversible GeO2/Ge/C Nanocomposite Anode Material for Lithium Batteries

“…Thus, much research has been focused on high capacity materials such as silicon (4200 mAh/g), [1][2][3][4][5][6] germanium (1623 mAh/g), [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and tin (993 mAh/g) [14][15][16][17][18][19] to replace the graphite anode. The oxides of these metals (SiO, [20][21][22][23] Germanium dioxide nanoparticles have been previously studied as anode material for LIBs and were reported to react with up to 9 Li + during the first discharge cycle.…”

Hydrothermal growth of Cobalt germanate/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite as superior anode materials for Lithium-ion batteries

“…Therefore Ge and Ge compounds may be promising candidates for the applications as anodes materials for LIBs [7][8][9][10]. However, pure Ge suffers from a serious capacity fading and the aggregation of Ge metal particles during lithium alloying and de-alloying process [11][12][13].…”

Facile approach to prepare porous GeO2/SnO2 nanofibers via a single spinneret electrospinning technique as anodes for Lithium-ion batteries

“…In order to improve the cycle stability of Ge-based anode materials, several works have been done: decrease the dimensions to the nanoscale (nanowires [7], nanoparticles [8] etc. ); design porous materials [9]; making composites with carbon [10,11] or thin carbon coating [12,13].…”