Enhanced cycling stability of lithium sulfur batteries using sulfur-polyaniline-graphene nanoribbon composite cathodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15033-15039

  Li, Lei ^a   Ruan, Gedeng ^a   Peng, Zhiwei ^a   Yang, Yang ^a,b   Fei, Huilong ^a   Raji, Abdul Rahman O ^a   Samuel, Errol L G ^a   Tour, James M ^a,b,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

energy storage; graphene nanoribbons; lithium sulfur battery; polyaniline; sulfur

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ENERGY STORAGE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LITHIUM BATTERIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORIBBONS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POLYANILINE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

COMPOSITE CATHODE; CYCLING STABILITY; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SYNERGISTIC COMBINATIONS; X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES;

EID: 84907833786     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5030116     Document Type: Article

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