Sandwich nanoarchitecture of Si/reduced graphene oxide bilayer nanomembranes for Li-ion batteries with long cycle life

The large capacity loss and huge volume change of silicon anodes severely restricts their practical applications in lithium ion batteries. In this contribution, the sandwich nanoarchitecture of rolled-up Si/reduced graphene oxide bilayer nanomembranes was designed via a strain released strategy. Within this nanoarchitecture, the inner void space and the mechanical feature of nanomembranes can help to buffer the strain during lithiation/delithiation; the alternately stacked conductive rGO layers can protect the Si layers from excessive formation of SEI layers. As anodes for lithium-ion batteries, the sandwiched Si/rGO nanoarchitecture demonstrates long cycling life of 2000 cycles at 3 A g(-1) with a capacity degradation of only 3.3% per 100 cycles.