One-Pot Synthesis of Copper Sulfide Nanowires/Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites with Excellent Lithium-Storage Properties as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 15726-15734

  Feng, Caihong ^a,b   Zhang, Le ^a   Yang, Menghuan ^a   Song, Xiangyun ^b   Zhao, Hui ^b   Jia, Zhe ^b   Sun, Kening ^a   Liu, Gao ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

copper sulfide; lithium ion battery; nanocomposites; reduced oxide graphene; synergistic effect

Indexed keywords

ANODES; COPPER; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CONVERSION REACTIONS; COPPER SULFIDES; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE (DMSO); GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES; IR AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; LITHIUM STORAGE PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84938600983     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01285     Document Type: Article

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