Trash to Treasure: Transforming Waste Polystyrene Cups into Negative Electrode Materials for Sodium Ion Batteries

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2153-2159

  Fonseca, Weliton Silva ^a   Meng, Xinghua ^a   Deng, Da ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous carbon; Anodes; Carbonization; Polystyrene; Sodium ion batteries

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; ANODES; CARBONIZATION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; IONS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; POLYSTYRENES;

DISORDERED CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MODERATE TEMPERATURE; NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL; PACKING MATERIALS; REVERSIBLE CAPACITY; REVERSIBLE STORAGE; SODIUM ION BATTERIES;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

EID: 84941043787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00403     Document Type: Article

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