Nanoporous Cathodes for High-Energy Li-S Batteries from Gyroid Block Copolymer Templates

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6147-6157

  Choudhury, Soumyadip ^a   Agrawal, Mukesh ^a   Formanek, Petr ^a   Jehnichen, Dieter ^a   Fischer, Dieter ^a   Krause, Beate ^a   Albrecht, Victoria ^a   Stamm, Manfred ^a,b   Ionov, Leonid ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b Soumyadip Choudhury and Mukesh Agrawal Contributed Equally to This Work Present Address: SABIC Technology Center   (India)

Author keywords

block copolymer; carbon; cathode; lithium sulfur batteries; template

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CARBON; CATHODES; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; FABRICATION; LITHIUM; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR;

BLOCK COPOLYMER TEMPLATES; ENERGY STORAGE/CONVERSION DEVICES; INTERCONNECTED POROUS STRUCTURE; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; POROUS CARBON MATERIALS; SACRIFICIAL TEMPLATES; TEMPLATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84934935919     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01406     Document Type: Article

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