Sulfur-functionalized mesoporous carbons as sulfur hosts in Li-S batteries: Increasing the affinity of polysulfide intermediates to enhance performance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 10908-10916

  See, Kimberly A ^a   Jun, Young Si ^a   Gerbec, Jeffrey A ^a,c   Sprafke, Johannes K ^a   Wudl, Fred ^a,b   Stucky, Galen D ^a,b   Seshadri, Ram ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Mitsubishi Chemical USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

enhance polysulfude affinity; isothermal titration calorimetry; lithium sulfur cell; mesoporous carbons; sulfur cathode; sulfur functionalized porous carbons

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ISOTHERMS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; POLYSULFIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TITRATION;

ENHANCE POLYSULFUDE AFFINITY; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; LITHIUM-SULFUR CELLS; MESOPOROUS CARBON; POROUS CARBONS; SULFUR CATHODES;

SULFUR;

EID: 84905014591     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am405025n     Document Type: Review

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