Stable cycling of a scalable graphene-encapsulated nanocomposite for lithium-sulfur batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 10917-10923

  He, Guang ^a   Hart, Connor J ^a   Liang, Xiao ^a   Garsuch, Arnd ^b   Nazar, Linda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

graphene encapsulation; long life lithium sulfur battery; low cost sulfur cathodes

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM; NANOCOMPOSITES; SULFUR;

CARBON FRAMEWORK; LARGE PORE VOLUME; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; PHYSICAL BARRIERS; POROUS ARCHITECTURES; SULFUR CATHODES;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84905011306     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500632b     Document Type: Review

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