Improving the Performance of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries by Employing Polyimide Particles as Hosting Matrixes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7464-7470

  Gu, Pei Yang ^a   Zhao, Yi ^a   Xie, Jian ^a   Binte Ali, Nursimaa ^a   Nie, Lina ^a   Xu, Zhichuan J ^a   Zhang, Qichun ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

high specific capacity; lithium sulfur batteries; long lifetime; poly(ethylene glycol); polyimide

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYIMIDES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR;

CYCLING STABILITY; DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITY; INITIAL DISCHARGE CAPACITIES; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; LONG LIFETIME; SULFUR CATHODES; SULFUR POWDERS;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84962050412     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01118     Document Type: Article

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