• Important Terms of batteries • Why lithium batteries? • Necessity, and advantage • Different types of lithium batteries • Primary and secondary/rechargeable • Working mechanism • How they store charges
• Overview of anode materials • Introduction of graphite • Chemistry of graphite • Molecular structure and Li insertion • Synthesis and modification methods • One literature example
• Introduction of silicon • Chemistry of silicon • Reaction mechanisms of silicon anode • Problems • Synthesis and modification methods • One literature example