Graphene/sulfur/carbon nanocomposite for high performance lithium-sulfur batteries

Nanomaterials

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1481-1492

  Jin, Kangke ^a   Zhou, Xufeng ^a   Liu, Zhaoping ^a  

^a NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Grapheme; Li S battery; Sulfur; cyclodextrin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940910538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano5031481     Document Type: Article

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