A Foldable Lithium-Sulfur Battery

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 11342-11350

  Li, Lu ^a   Wu, Zi Ping ^a   Sun, Hao ^b   Chen, Deming ^a   Gao, Jian ^a   Suresh, Shravan ^a   Chow, Philippe ^a   Singh, Chandra Veer ^c   Koratkar, Nikhil ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; foldable battery; lithium sulfur battery; shape conformality

Indexed keywords

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC CURRENT COLLECTORS; FILMS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MOBILE PHONES; NANOTUBES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; CHECKERBOARD PATTERNS; CONFORMALITY; FOLDABLE BATTERY; FOLDING AND UNFOLDING; IMPLANTABLE BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84948434981     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05068     Document Type: Article

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