Long-Life and High-Areal-Capacity Li-S Batteries Enabled by a Light-Weight Polar Host with Intrinsic Polysulfide Adsorption

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4111-4118

  Pang, Quan ^a   Nazar, Linda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

graphitic carbon nitride; light weight; lithium sulfur battery; long cycle life; polysulfide adsorption

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CALCULATIONS; CARBON NITRIDE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; GAS ADSORPTION; LITHIUM; NITRIDES; POLYSULFIDES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR;

CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; CYCLING PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GRAPHITIC CARBON NITRIDES; LIGHT WEIGHT; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; LONG CYCLES;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84968725283     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07347     Document Type: Article

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