Origin of Electrochemical, Structural, and Transport Properties in Nonaqueous Zinc Electrolytes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3021-3031

  Han, Sang Don ^a   Rajput, Nav Nidhi ^a,b   Qu, Xiaohui ^a,b   Pan, Baofei ^a   He, Meinan ^a,c   Ferrandon, Magali S ^a   Liao, Chen ^a   Persson, Kristin A ^a,b   Burrell, Anthony K ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

anodic stability; Coulombic efficiency; electrode electrolyte interface; nonaqueous electrolyte; reversible deposition; solvation structure

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOLVATION; STABILITY; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANODIC STABILITIES; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODE/ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTES; REVERSIBLE DEPOSITION; SOLVATION STRUCTURE;

ZINC;

EID: 84958012570     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10024     Document Type: Article

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