Silicon Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Modern Applications
A special issue of Electrochem (ISSN 2673-3293).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 July 2025 | Viewed by 2539
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Interests: high-temperature electrochemistry; molten salts; electrochemical sensors; SNF pyro-reprocessing; Al master alloys and composites
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Dear Colleagues,
Silicon is widely used in microelectronics and solar energy. In the context of a global increase in energy consumption and a reduction in energy resources, increasingly attention is being paid to the development of novel materials, devices and technologies for the use of renewable energy sources. In particular, the possibility of using silicon-based materials in solar energy converters and energy storage devices is being actively investigated. The efficiency of the above devices can be ensured through the use of thin (microsized) silicon films of high purity with a controlled content of microimpurities or nanosized and submicron silicon particles.
One of the cheap and promising methods for obtaining silicon of a given morphology with a controlled content of microimpurities is electrodeposition from various electrolytes (melts, organic electrolytes, ionic liquids, etc.). However, despite the abundance of proposed methods for obtaining silicon, only a limited portion of deposits has been measured for their photoelectric properties and energy characteristics in the composition of lithium-ion current sources. All of this is due to the lack of systematic studies and the ignorance of a number of factors (the semiconductor nature of silicon, the thermal instability of silicon-containing ions in molten salts, the incorporation of oxygen into the bulk of the silicon deposit, etc.) that determine the patterns of silicon electrodeposition and its practical applicability.
- The behavior of silicon-containing electroactive ions in electrolytes;
- Changes in the physical and chemical properties of electrolytes with the addition of silicon-containing ions;
- The electroreduction of silicon-containing electroactive ions;
- Silicon electrodeposition;
- The electrochemical texturing of thin silicon films;
- The electrochemical doping of silicon with microimpurities;
- The electrochemical synthesis of composite materials based on silicon, as well as an analysis of the practical use of electrodeposited silicon in devices;
- The conversion of solar energy;
- Lithium-ion current sources;
- Other devices.
Dr. Suzdaltsev Andrey
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- silicon electrochemistry
- electrodeposition
- silicon thin films
- silicon nanoscale deposits
- silicon-based composites
- solar energy conversion devices
- energy storage devices
