Lithium sulfide (Li2S)/graphene oxide nanospheres with conformal carbon coating as a high-rate, long-life cathode for Li/S cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3479-3486

  Hwa, Yoon ^a,b   Zhao, Juan ^a,b   Cairns, Elton J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cathodes; energy storage; graphene oxide; lithium batteries; lithium sulfide; sulfur

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CATHODES; CELLS; COATINGS; COREMAKING; CYTOLOGY; DECAY (ORGANIC); ENERGY STORAGE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; NANOSPHERES; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TIN ALLOYS;

CATH-ODE MATERIALS; CORE SHELL NANO STRUCTURES; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; DISCHARGE RATES; INITIAL DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; INTERMEDIATE SPECIE; LITHIUM SULFIDES; ROTATING FURNACES;

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

CARBON; GRAPHITE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM SULFIDE; NANOSPHERE; OXIDE; SULFIDE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; POWER SUPPLY;

CARBON; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSPHERES; OXIDES; SULFIDES;

EID: 84929151723     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00820     Document Type: Article

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