Amorphous, Crystalline and Crystalline/Amorphous Selenium Nanowires and Their Different (De)Lithiation Mechanisms

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 6730-6736

  Zhou, Xiaoming ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Sun, Shuchao ^a   Bao, Di ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Li, Xiaobo ^a   Wu, Tingting ^a   Chen, Yujin ^a   Yang, Piaoping ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALL MILLING; CATHODES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; NANOWIRES; PORE SIZE; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SELENIUM;

CHARGE/DISCHARGE CYCLE; CHEMICAL REACTION PROCESS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; HIGH OUTPUT VOLTAGE; HIGH-ENERGY BALL MILLING; INTERMEDIATE PHASIS; SPECTRA MEASUREMENTS; VOLUMETRIC CAPACITY;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84944128400     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02753     Document Type: Article

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