Highly ordered nitrogen-rich mesoporous carbon derived from biomass waste for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

Carbon

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 399-408

  Qu, Yaohui ^a   Zhang, Zhian ^a   Zhang, Xiahui ^a   Ren, Guodong ^a   Lai, Yanqing ^a   Liu, Yexiang ^a   Li, Jie ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITROGEN; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR;

CATH-ODE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE CATHODE; CYCLING STABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL TEST; HIGH RATE CAPABILITY; INITIAL DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; MESOPOROUS CARBON;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84922262445     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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