High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries with a Self-Assembled Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Interlayer and a Robust Electrode-Electrolyte Interface

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 983-987

  Kim, Hee Min ^a   Hwang, Jang Yeon ^a   Manthiram, Arumugam ^b   Sun, Yang Kook ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

bare MWCNT interlayer; elemental sulfur electrode; lithium sulfur batteries; multiwalled carbon nanotube; self assembled MWCNT interlayer; simple manufacturing process

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; NANOTUBES; POLYSULFIDES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR; YARN;

BARE MWCNT INTERLAYER; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; SELF-ASSEMBLED MWCNT INTERLAYER;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; ELECTROLYTE; LITHIUM; SULFUR;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; POWER SUPPLY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; LITHIUM; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SULFUR;

EID: 84954434316     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10812     Document Type: Article

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