Absorption mechanism of carbon-nanotube paper-titanium dioxide as a multifunctional barrier material for lithium-sulfur batteries

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3066-3074

  Xu, Guiyin ^a   Yuan, Jiaren ^a   Tao, Xinyong ^b   Ding, Bing ^a   Dou, Hui ^a   Yan, Xiaohong ^a,c   Xiao, Yang ^a   Zhang, Xiaogang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

adsorption; carbon nanotube paper; lithium sulfur batteries; multifunctional barrier; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941731781     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0812-0     Document Type: Article

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