A nanostructured cathode architecture for low charge overpotential in lithium-oxygen batteries

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lu, Jun ^a   Lei, Yu ^a   Lau, Kah Chun ^a   Luo, Xiangyi ^a   Du, Peng ^a   Wen, Jianguo ^a   Assary, Rajeev S ^a   Das, Ujjal ^a   Miller, Dean J ^a   Elam, Jeffrey W ^a   Albishri, Hassan M ^b   El Hady, D Abd ^b   Sun, Yang Kook ^c   Curtiss, Larry A ^a   Amine, Khalil ^a,b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; LITHIUM; NANOCRYSTAL; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84955572127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3383     Document Type: Article

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