Review of carbon materials for advanced lithium-sulfur batteries

Xinxing Tan Cailiao/New Carbon Materials

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 241-264

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Cheng, Xin Bing ^a   Huang, Jia Qi ^a   Peng, Hong Jie ^a   Wei, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Carbon sulfur composite; Graphene; Hybrids; Lithium sulfur battery; Nanocarbon; Porous carbon

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; POLYSULFIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; SMARTPHONES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; YARN;

CARBON MATERIAL; CARBON/SULPHUR COMPOSITE; HYBRID; LITHIUM/SULFUR BATTERIES; NANOCARBONS; POLYSULPHIDES; POROUS CARBONS; PORTABLE DEVICE; SULFUR COMPOSITES; THEORETICAL CAPACITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84907215418     PISSN: 20971605     EISSN: 18725805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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