Coating lithium titanate with nitrogen-doped carbon by simple refluxing for high-power lithium-ion batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 10250-10257

  Long, Du Hoang ^a,b   Jeong, Min Gi ^a   Lee, Yoon Sung ^a   Choi, Wonchang ^a,b   Lee, Joong Kee ^a,b   Oh, In Hwan ^a,b   Jung, Hun Gi ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

anode; high power density; lithium ion battery; lithium titanate; nitrogen doped carbon coating

Indexed keywords

ANODES; COATINGS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; IONS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN; SECONDARY BATTERIES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CARBON AND NITROGEN; ELECTROCHEMICAL TEST; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HIGH-POWER LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; LITHIUM ION DIFFUSION; LITHIUM TITANATE; NITROGEN-DOPED CARBONS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84930197857     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00776     Document Type: Article

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