Encapsulation of S/SWNT with PANI web for enhanced rate and cycle performance in lithium sulfur batteries

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kim, Joo Hyun ^a   Fu, Kun ^b   Choi, Junghyun ^a,b   Kil, Kichun ^a   Kim, Jeonghyun ^a   Han, Xiaogang ^b   Hu, Liangbing ^b   Paik, Ungyu ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84924351761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08946     Document Type: Article

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