Enhancing lithium-sulphur battery performance by strongly binding the discharge products on amino-functionalized reduced graphene oxide

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Zhiyu ^a,b   Dong, Yanfeng ^a   Li, Hongjiang ^a   Zhao, Zongbin ^a   Bin Wu, Hao ^b   Hao, Ce ^a   Liu, Shaohong ^a   Qiu, Jieshan ^a   Lou, Xiong Wen David ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE OXIDE; LITHIUM; NANOCOMPOSITE; SULFUR;

CARBON; ELECTRIC FIELD; LITHIUM; OXIDE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COVALENT BOND; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84916607238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6002     Document Type: Article

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