Sulphur-TiO 2 yolk-shell nanoarchitecture with internal void space for long-cycle lithium-sulphur batteries

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Seh, Zhi Wei ^a   Li, Weiyang ^a   Cha, Judy J ^a   Zheng, Guangyuan ^a   Yang, Yuan ^a   McDowell, Matthew T ^a   Hsu, Po Chun ^a   Cui, Yi ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NANOMATERIAL; SULFUR; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DISSOLUTION; ELECTRODE; FRACTURE; LITHIUM; OXIDE; SULFUR; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC BATTERY; LITHIATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84886012072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2327     Document Type: Article

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