Performance Enhancement and Mechanistic Studies of Room-Temperature Sodium-Sulfur Batteries with a Carbon-Coated Functional Nafion Separator and a Na2S/Activated Carbon Nanofiber Cathode

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 896-905

  Yu, Xingwen ^a   Manthiram, Arumugam ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; MECHANICS; POLYSULFIDES; SEPARATORS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR;

BATTERY SEPARATORS; ELECTROLYTE SEPARATOR; ELECTRONIC EFFECTS; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; POLYSULFIDE SHUTTLES; SODIUM SULFUR BATTERY;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

EID: 84957966767     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04588     Document Type: Article

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