Insight into sulfur reactions in Li-S batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 21938-21945

  Xu, Rui ^a,e   Belharouak, Ilias ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   Chamoun, Rita ^b   Yu, Cun ^c   Ren, Yang ^c   Nie, Anmin ^d   Shahbazian Yassar, Reza ^d   Lu, Jun ^a   Li, James C M ^e   Amine, Khalil ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^e University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulombic efficiency; EIS study; lithium polysulfide; lithium sulfur (Li S) batteries; sulfur chemistry

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU PROCESSING; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM DEPOSITS; LITHIUM METALLOGRAPHY; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYSULFIDES; REDOX REACTIONS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; EIS STUDIES; HIGH ENERGY X-RAY DIFFRACTION; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; LITHIUM SULFURS; POLYHEDRAL STRUCTURES; SULFUR CHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL CAPACITY;

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84919884256     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504763p     Document Type: Article

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