Coaxial Carbon/Metal Oxide/Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays as High-Performance Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

Invited for this month′s cover is the group of Prof. D. Chen at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The image shows how the aggregation of carbon/metal oxide core–shell arrays, which are used as anodes for lithium ion batteries, can be avoided—through carbon coating, as a result of which carbon/metal oxide/carbon sandwich arrays are formed. The Full Paper itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.201300461 “Carbon/metal oxide/carbon sandwich arrays were designed and synthesized for the first time as anode for lithium ion batteries…︁…︁.” This and more about the story behind the research that inspired the cover image can be found on page 1335 (10.1002/cssc.201300461. View the front cover on page 1197).