Hierarchical carbon nanocages as high-rate anodes for Li- and Na-ion batteries

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3535-3543

  Lyu, Zhiyang ^a   Yang, Lijun ^a   Xu, Dan ^a   Zhao, Jin ^a   Lai, Hongwei ^a   Jiang, Yufei ^a   Wu, Qiang ^a   Li, Yi ^a   Wang, Xizhang ^a   Hu, Zheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

anode; hierarchical carbon nanocages; high rate capability; lithium ion batteries; sodium ion batteries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946501342     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0853-4     Document Type: Article

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