Porous spherical carbon/sulfur nanocomposites by aerosol-assisted synthesis: The effect of pore structure and morphology on their electrochemical performance as lithium/sulfur battery cathodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7596-7606

  Sohn, Hiesang ^a   Gordin, Mikhail L ^a   Xu, Terrence ^a   Chen, Shuru ^a   Lv, Dongping ^a   Song, Jiangxuan ^a   Manivannan, Ayyakkannu ^b   Wang, Donghai ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosol assisted process; lithium sulfur battery; porosity; porous spherical carbon

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; PORE SIZE; PORE STRUCTURE; POROSITY; SPHERES;

BETTER PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; LARGE PORE VOLUME; LITHIUM/SULFUR BATTERIES; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; POROUS SPHERICAL; STRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY;

CATHODES;

EID: 84901684415     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am404508t     Document Type: Article

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