Toward a sodium-"Air" battery: Revealing the critical role of humidity

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13433-13441

  Sun, Qian ^a   Yadegari, Hossein ^a   Banis, Mohammad N ^a   Liu, Jian ^a   Xiao, Biwei ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Langford, Craig ^a   Li, Ruying ^a   Sun, Xueliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; LITHIUM; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SODIUM;

ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; HUMID CONDITIONS; LITHIUM-AIR BATTERY; MINOR COMPONENTS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; REACTION MECHANISM; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84934957118     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02673     Document Type: Article

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