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A hierarchical approach for the fabrication of three-dimensional microbattery electrodes
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A hierarchical approach for the fabrication of three-dimensional microbattery electrodes

K Gerasopoulos, E Pomerantseva, M McCarthy, J Culver, C Wang and R Ghodssi
2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, pp 727-730
Jun 2011

Abstract

Batteries Electrodes Fabrication hierarchical Microbatteries Nanobioscience Nanostructures Silicon templates virus
The first successful demonstration of virus-structured, hierarchical electrodes for three-dimensional (3-D) Li-ion microbattery architectures is reported in this paper. The electrodes consist of electroplated gold micropillars and virus-structured nanocomposite materials with a TiO 2 anode layer deposited on a nickel-coated viral template. Micropatterning increases the active electrode surface area and electrochemical characterization results verify an improvement in microbattery capacity by up to a factor of four compared to nanostructures alone.

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