Electrical, Mechanical, and Capacity Percolation Leads to High-Performance MoS2/Nanotube Composite Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 5980-5990

  Liu, Yuping ^a   He, Xiaoyun ^b   Hanlon, Damien ^b   Harvey, Andrew ^b   Khan, Umar ^b   Li, Yanguang ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

anode; mechanical; network; percolating

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOTUBES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SECONDARY BATTERIES; SOLVENTS; STABILITY; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; YARN;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH REVERSIBLE CAPACITIES; LITHIUM STORAGE PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL; MECHANICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; PERCOLATING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84976632832     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b01505     Document Type: Article

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