High Area Capacity Lithium-Sulfur Full-cell Battery with Prelitiathed Silicon Nanowire-Carbon Anodes for Long Cycling Stability

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Krause, Andreas ^a,b   Dörfler, Susanne ^c,d   Piwko, Markus ^c   Wisser, Florian M ^d   Jaumann, Tony ^e   Ahrens, Eike ^d,e   Giebeler, Lars ^d,e   Althues, Holger ^c   Schädlich, Stefan ^c   Grothe, Julia ^d   Jeffery, Andrea ^a   Grube, Matthias ^a   Brückner, Jan ^c   Martin, Jan ^d   Eckert, Jürgen ^d,e,f,g   Kaskel, Stefan ^c,d   Mikolajick, Thomas ^a,b,d   Weber, Walter M ^a,b  

^a NAMLAB GGMBH   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MATERIAL AND BEAM TECHNOLOGY IWS   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^f ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

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EID: 84975506884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27982     Document Type: Article

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