Graphene materials for lithium-sulfur batteries

Energy Storage Materials

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-73

  Yu, Mingpeng ^a,b   Li, Rui ^a   Wu, Mingmao ^a   Shi, Gaoquan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; LITHIUM SULFURS; NEGATIVE ELECTRODE; POSITIVE ELECTRODES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES;

EID: 84945305600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ensm.2015.08.004     Document Type: Review

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