Catalytic self-limited assembly at hard templates: A mesoscale approach to graphene nanoshells for lithium - Sulfur batteries

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11280-11289

  Peng, Hong Jie ^a   Liang, Jiyuan ^b   Zhu, Lin ^c   Huang, Jia Qi ^a   Cheng, Xin Bing ^a   Guo, Xuefeng ^b   Ding, Weiping ^b   Zhu, Wancheng ^c   Zhang, Qiang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Battery; Graphene; Nanostructures; Porous carbon; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); GRAPHENE; LITHIUM BATTERIES; MASS TRANSPORTATION; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; POROUS CARBON; POROUS MATERIALS; SULFUR;

BATTERY; GRAPHENE LAYERS; HOLLOW NANOSTRUCTURES; INITIAL DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; LARGE SURFACE AREA; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SURFACE PERMEABILITY; UTILIZATION RATES;

LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES;

EID: 84912558280     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503985s     Document Type: Article

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