Supramolecular Perylene Bisimide-Polysulfide Gel Networks as Nanostructured Redox Mediators in Dissolved Polysulfide Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 6765-6770

  Frischmann, Peter D ^a   Gerber, Laura C H ^a   Doris, Sean E ^a,b   Tsai, Erica Y ^a   Fan, Frank Y ^c   Qu, Xiaohui ^a   Jain, Anubhav ^a   Persson, Kristin A ^a   Chiang, Yet Ming ^c   Helms, Brett A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CARBON; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; FLOW BATTERIES; LITHIUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYSULFIDES; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

BATTERY PERFORMANCE; CHARGE TRANSPORTING; COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS; ELECTRONIC CHARGES; ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; PERYLENE BISIMIDES; SECONDARY INTERACTIONS;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84944058698     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02955     Document Type: Article

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