There are three main groups of negative electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. The materials known as insertion materials are Li-ion batteries' “historic” electrode materials. Carbon and titanates are the best known and most widely used.
Carbon materials, including graphite, hard carbon, soft carbon, graphene, and carbon nanotubes, are widely used as high-performance negative electrodes for sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries (SIBs and PIBs).
For example, silicon-based materials, alloy materials, tin-gold materials, and the like. The negative electrode of lithium ion battery is made of negative electrode active material carbon material or non-carbon material, binder and additive to make paste glue, which is evenly spread on both sides of copper foil, dried and rolled.
The limitations in potential for the electroactive material of the negative electrode are less important than in the past thanks to the advent of 5 V electrode materials for the cathode in lithium-cell batteries. However, to maintain cell voltage, a deep study of new electrolyte–solvent combinations is required.
In a real full battery, electrode materials with higher capacities and a larger potential difference between the anode and cathode materials are needed.
Although these processes are reversed during cell charge in secondary batteries, the positive electrode in these systems is still commonly, if somewhat inaccurately, referred to as the cathode, and the negative as the anode. Cathode active material in Lithium Ion battery are most likely metal oxides. Some of the common CAM are given below