Highly reversible room-temperature sulfur/long-chain sodium polysulfide batteries

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1943-1947

  Yu, Xingwen ^a   Manthiram, Arumugam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

cost performance ratio; energy density; interlayer; long chain sodium polysulfide; reversibility; room temperature sodium sulfur battery

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; CHAINS; POLYSULFIDES; REACTION KINETICS; SULFUR;

COST-PERFORMANCE RATIO; ENERGY DENSITY; INTERLAYER; REVERSIBILITY; SODIUM-SULFUR BATTERIES;

SODIUM;

EID: 84902109583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500848x     Document Type: Article

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