A highly reversible room-temperature lithium metal battery based on crosslinked hairy nanoparticles

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Choudhury, Snehashis ^a   Mangal, Rahul ^a   Agrawal, Akanksha ^a   Archer, Lynden A ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; LITHIUM;

ALUMINUM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYTE; LITHIUM; MEMBRANE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; NANOFABRICATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; POWER SUPPLY; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; LITHIUM; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84949294633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10101     Document Type: Article

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