Engineering of Hollow Core-Shell Interlinked Carbon Spheres for Highly Stable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8504-8513

  Sun, Qiang ^a   He, Bin ^a   Zhang, Xiang Qian ^a   Lu, An Hui ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

core shell; hollow structure; Li S battery; porous carbon; self deposition

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LITHIUM; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICA; SPHERES; SULFUR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CORE SHELL; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HOLLOW STRUCTURE; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; NATURAL DRIVING FORCES; POROUS CARBONS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF-DEPOSITION;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84940036241     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03488     Document Type: Article

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