Recent progress of advanced anode materials of lithium-ion batteries

Abstract The rapid development of electric vehicles and mobile electronic devices is the main driving force to improve advanced high-performance lithium ion batteries (LIBs). The capacity, rate performance and cycle stability of LIBs rely directly on the electrode materials. As far as the development of the advanced LIBs electrode is concerned, the improvement of anode materials is more urgent than the cathode materials. Industrial production of anode materials superior to commercial graphite still faces some challenges. This review sets out the most basic LIBs anode material design. The reaction principles and structural design of carbon materials, various transition metal oxides, silicon and germanium are summarized, and then the progress of other anode materials are analyzed. Due to the rapid development of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) in energy storage and conversion in recent years, the synthesis process and energy storage mechanism of nanostructures derived from MOF precursors are also discussed. From the perspective of novel structural design, the progress of various MOFs-derived materials for alleviating the volume expansion of anode materials is discussed. Finally, challenges for the future development of advanced anode materials for LIBs will be considered.