Nanocasting hierarchical carbide-derived carbons in nanostructured opal assemblies for high-performance cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12130-12140

  Hoffmann, Claudia ^a   Thieme, Sören ^b   Brückner, Jan ^b   Oschatz, Martin ^a   Biemelt, Tim ^a   Mondin, Giovanni ^a   Althues, Holger ^b   Kaskel, Stefan ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MATERIAL AND BEAM TECHNOLOGY IWS   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbide derived carbon; DUT 86; inverse opal; lithium sulfur battery; small Angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CATHODES; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROPOROSITY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPORES; POLYSILANES; PORE SIZE; SILICA; X RAY SCATTERING;

CARBIDE DERIVED CARBON; CHLORINE TREATMENTS; COMPOSITE CATHODE; DUT-86; INVERSE OPAL; SILICA NANOSPHERES; SPHERICAL MESOPORES; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC;

LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES;

EID: 84919721701     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503394u     Document Type: Article

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