Tailoring porosity in carbon nanospheres for lithium-sulfur battery cathodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 10920-10930

  He, Guang ^a   Evers, Scott ^a   Liang, Xiao ^a   Cuisinier, Marine ^a   Garsuch, Arnd ^b   Nazar, Linda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

hollow nanospheres; lithium sulfur battery; mesoporous carbon; sulfur cathode

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY DEGRADATION; CATH-ODE MATERIALS; CYCLING PERFORMANCE; HOLLOW CARBON SPHERES; HOLLOW NANOSPHERES; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; MESOPOROUS CARBON; SULFUR CATHODES;

CARBON; CATHODES; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSPHERES; OPTIMIZATION; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

SULFUR;

EID: 84891364256     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404439r     Document Type: Article

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