Progress in Application of CNTs in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Abstract

The lithium‐ion battery is widely used in the fields of portable devices and electric cars with its superior performance and promising energy storage applications. The unique one‐dimensional structure formed by the graphene layer makes carbon nanotubes possess excellent mechanical, electrical, and electrochemical properties and becomes a hot material in the research of lithium‐ion battery. In this paper, the applicable research progress of carbon nanotubes in lithium‐ion battery is described, and its future development is put forward from its two aspects of being not only the anodic conductive reinforcing material and the cathodic energy storage material but also the electrically conductive framework material.