Room-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries with liquid-phase sodium polysulfide catholytes and binder-free multiwall carbon nanotube fabric electrodes

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 22952-22959

  Yu, Xingwen ^a   Manthiram, Arumugam ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CATHODES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; POLYSULFIDES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TIN ALLOYS;

CAPACITY RETENTION; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTROCHEMICAL STUDIES; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT; SODIUM SULFUR BATTERY; SULFUR-CARBON COMPOSITES; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

EID: 84908200339     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp507655u     Document Type: Article

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