Demir Cakan Rezan, Titirici Maria-Magdalena, Antonietti Markus, Cui Guanglei, Maier Joachim, Hu Yong-Sheng
Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Am Muhlenberg, 114476, Golm, Germany.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Aug 28(32):3759-61. doi: 10.1039/b805671b. Epub 2008 Jun 13.
Spherically shaped carbon/silicon nanocomposites have been obtained in a one-step procedure using hydrothermal carbonization of glucose in the presence of commercially available silicon nanoparticles and have been tested electrochemically as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries.