A Sheet-like Carbon Matrix Hosted Sulfur as Cathode for High-performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lu, Songtao ^a   Chen, Yan ^a   Zhou, Jia ^a   Wang, Zhida ^a   Wu, Xiaohong ^a   Gu, Jian ^b   Zhang, Xiaoping ^b   Pang, Aimin ^b   Jiao, Zilong ^c   Jiang, Lixiang ^c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hubei Institute of Aerospace Chemotechnology   (China)

^c Beijing Institute of Satellite Environment Engineering   (China)

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EID: 84957584517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20445     Document Type: Article

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