Synergistically Enhanced Polysulfide Chemisorption Using a Flexible Hybrid Separator with N and S Dual-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Coating for Advanced Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 14586-14595

  Balach, Juan ^a   Singh, Harish K ^a   Gomoll, Selina ^a   Jaumann, Tony ^a   Klose, Markus ^a,b   Oswald, Steffen ^a   Richter, Manuel ^a,b   Eckert, Jürgen ^a,b,c   Giebeler, Lars ^a,b  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

DFT calculation; hybrid separator; lithium sulfur battery; mesoporous carbon coating; nitrogen sulfur codoped; polysulfide adsorption

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CATHODES; COATINGS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; POLYSULFIDES; SEPARATORS; SULFUR;

CAPACITY DEGRADATION; CO-DOPED; DFT CALCULATION; HIGH SPECIFIC CAPACITY; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; MESOPOROUS CARBON; POLYSULFIDE SHUTTLES; SPECIFIC ENERGY DENSITY;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84975144038     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03642     Document Type: Article

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