Wet Chemistry Synthesis of Multidimensional Nanocarbon-Sulfur Hybrid Materials with Ultrahigh Sulfur Loading for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 3584-3590

  Du, Wen Cheng ^a,b   Yin, Ya Xia ^a   Zeng, Xian Xiang ^a   Shi, Ji Lei ^a   Zhang, Shuai Feng ^a   Wan, Li Jun ^a,b   Guo, Yu Guo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

3D conducting networks; lithium sulfur batteries; multidimensional nanocarbons; soluble chemistry; sulfur cathode

Indexed keywords

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATHODES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; HYBRID MATERIALS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM BATTERIES; SULFUR; YARN;

3D CONDUCTING NETWORKS; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITY; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; NANOCARBONS; SULFUR CATHODES; SULFUR-CARBON COMPOSITES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); WET-CHEMISTRY SYNTHESIS;

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EID: 84959017034     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07468     Document Type: Article

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