Carbon-Free CoO Mesoporous Nanowire Array Cathode for High-Performance Aprotic Li-O2 Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 41, 2015, Pages 23182-23189

  Wu, Baoshan ^a   Zhang, Hongzhang ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Meiri ^a   Li, Xianfeng ^a   Zhang, Huamin ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

carbon free cathode; CoO nanowire; Li air; Li O2 battery; synergistic effect

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATHODES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; NANOWIRES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION;

BATTERY APPLICATIONS; CARBON-FREE; CYCLING EFFICIENCY; DISCHARGE SPECIFIC CAPACITY; ELECTROLYTE DECOMPOSITION; MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES; SELECTIVE OXYGEN REDUCTION; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84945433291     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07003     Document Type: Article

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