Efficient Fabrication of Hierarchically Porous Graphene-Derived Aerogel and Its Application in Lithium Sulfur Battery

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 6072-6081

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Qin, Furong ^a   Lai, Yanqing ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Lei, Xiaoke ^a   Wang, Mengran ^a   Lu, Hai ^a   Fang, Jing ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aerogel; cassava; graphene; hierarchically porous; lithium sulfur battery

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM; PLANTS (BOTANY); POROUS MATERIALS; SULFUR;

CASSAVA; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; FABRICATION STRATEGIES; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS CARBONS; HYDROTHERMAL PRODUCTS; HYDROTHERMAL REACTION; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84960477683     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b12586     Document Type: Article

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