Deposited Layers as Negative Electrodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

The battery usage increases every year. The batteries help with development of mobility both from point of view of portable electronic and from view of goods and people transport in electromobility. One of the main parameters is gravimetric and volumetric capacity, which we are trying continually increase. One of the main ways is to change current used material by new ones with better parameters. One of possibilities is to use thin layer and so-called battery conversion principle. Electrodes works on conversion principle have usual higher capacities. The main disadvantage of such system is large volume change of electrode material due charging and discharging. This can be partly solved by special 3D structure which compensate the volume changes. This work focusses on preparing basic thin layer electrode by help of electrodeposition. The electrodes are then cycled against lithium.