Ti-substituted tunnel-type Na0.44MnO2 oxide as a negative electrode for aqueous sodium-ion batteries

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Yuesheng ^a   Liu, Jue ^b   Lee, Byungju ^c   Qiao, Ruimin ^d   Yang, Zhenzhong ^a   Xu, Shuyin ^a   Yu, Xiqian ^b   Gu, Lin ^a   Hu, Yong Sheng ^a   Yang, Wanli ^d   Kang, Kisuk ^c   Li, Hong ^a   Yang, Xiao Qing ^b   Chen, Liquan ^a   Huang, Xuejie ^a  

^a Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Electron Microscopy   (China)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE DIOXIDE; SODIUM ION; TITANIUM;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COST ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYTE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; IONIC COMPOSITION; MANGANESE OXIDE; OXYGEN; REACTION KINETICS; SODIUM; TITANIUM; TUNNEL;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; REACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84925808777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7401     Document Type: Article

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