A stable room-temperature sodium-sulfur battery

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wei, Shuya ^a   Xu, Shaomao ^a   Agrawral, Akanksha ^a   Choudhury, Snehashis ^a   Lu, Yingying ^b   Tu, Zhengyuan ^a   Ma, Lin ^a   Archer, Lynden A ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; ELECTROLYTE; IONIC LIQUID; SODIUM; SODIUM ION; SULFUR;

COMPOSITE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYTE; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT; ION; LIQUID; NANOPARTICLE; REDOX POTENTIAL; SODIUM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LIQUID; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLID STATE; STORAGE;

EID: 84973662089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11722     Document Type: Article

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