Novel nitrogen-doped hierarchically porous coralloid carbon materials as host matrixes for lithium-sulfur batteries

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-15

  Yang, Jing ^a   Wang, Shuyuan ^b   Ma, Zhipeng ^a   Du, Zhiling ^a   Li, Chunying ^a   Song, Jianjun ^a   Wang, Guiling ^a   Shao, Guangjie ^a  

^a YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon sulfur composites; Cathode materials; coralloid carbon; Lithium sulfur batteries; Nitrogen doped hierarchically porous

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBONIZATION; CATHODE MATERIALS; CATHODES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN; POLYSULFIDES;

DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS; HIGH SULFUR CONTENTS; INITIAL DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; SURFACE INTERACTIONS; SYNERGETIC EFFECT;

LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES;

EID: 84922345283     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.01.187     Document Type: Article

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