Morphological effect of graphene nanosheets on ultrathin CoS nanosheets and their applications for high-performance Li-Ion batteries and photocatalysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 25355-25364

  Kong, Shaofeng ^a   Jin, Zhitong ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Wang, Yong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; GRAPHENE; IONS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; NANOSHEETS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

CYCLING PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; GRAPHENE NANOSHEETS; MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; REVERSIBLE CAPACITY; STRUCTURE DIRECTING AGENTS; STRUCTURE STABILITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84949115805     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp508698q     Document Type: Article

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