Building better lithium-sulfur batteries: From LiNO2 to solid oxide catalyst

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ding, Ning ^a   Zhou, Lan ^a,b   Zhou, Changwei ^a   Geng, Dongsheng ^a   Yang, Jin ^a   Chien, Sheau Wei ^a   Liu, Zhaolin ^a   Ng, Man Fai ^c   Yu, Aishui ^b   Hor, T S Andy ^a,d   Sullivan, Michael B ^c   Zong, Yun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84987850229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep33154     Document Type: Article

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