Free-Standing Thin Webs of Activated Carbon Nanofibers by Electrospinning for Rechargeable Li-O2 Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1937-1942

  Nie, Hongjiao ^a,b   Xu, Chi ^a,b   Zhou, Wei ^a,b   Wu, Baoshan ^a   Li, Xianfeng ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Zhang, Huamin ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

electrospinning; free standing cathodes; hierarchically porous structure; Li O2 battery; physical activation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATHODES; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSPINNING; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; NANOFIBERS; SPINNING (FIBERS);

FREE-STANDING STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS; HIGH PERMEABILITY; INCREASED DISCHARGES; INDIVIDUAL NANOFIBERS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; NUCLEATION SITES; PHYSICAL ACTIVATION;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

EID: 84955606623     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10088     Document Type: Article

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