Porous carbon nanofiber paper as an effective interlayer for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 168, Issue , 2015, Pages 271-276

  Wang, Jiangan ^a   Yang, Ying ^b   Kang, Feiyu ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofiber; Cell configuration; Electrospinning; Lithium sulfur battery

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBON; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSPINNING; LITHIUM; NANOFIBERS; POROUS MATERIALS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SPINNING (FIBERS); SULFUR;

ACTIVATION TREATMENT; CELL CONFIGURATIONS; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; POROUS CARBON NANOFIBERS; RATE CAPABILITIES; SPECIFIC CAPACITIES;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84927613400     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.04.055     Document Type: Article

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