Origin of low sodium capacity in graphite and generally weak substrate binding of Na and Mg among alkali and alkaline earth metals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 3735-3739

  Liu, Yuanyue ^a   Merinov, Boris V ^a   Goddard, William A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Mg ion battery; Na ion battery; Quantum mechanical calculations

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METAL; ALKALINE EARTH METAL; GRAPHITE; MAGNESIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IONIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84962418085     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1602473113     Document Type: Article

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