Reinforced Conductive Confinement of Sulfur for Robust and High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 43, 2015, Pages 23885-23892

  Lai, Chao ^a,b   Wu, Zhenzhen ^a   Gu, Xingxing ^b   Wang, Chao ^a   Xi, Kai ^c   Kumar, R Vasant ^c   Zhang, Shanqing ^b  

^a JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amorphous carbon; carbon nanotubes; cathode; high capacity retention; lithiumsulfur batteries; space confining

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; NANOTUBES; POLYSULFIDES; SULFUR; YARN;

AMORPHOUS CARBON NETWORKS; CARBON NANOTUBES COMPOSITES; ELECTROACTIVE MATERIAL; HIGH CAPACITY; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; REVERSIBLE CAPACITY; SPACE CONFINING; THEORETICAL CAPACITY;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84946572875     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07978     Document Type: Article

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