Electrochemistry of Selenium with Sodium and Lithium: Kinetics and Reaction Mechanism

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 8788-8795

  Li, Qianqian ^a,b   Liu, Heguang ^a,b,d   Yao, Zhenpeng ^a   Cheng, Jipeng ^a,b,c   Li, Tiehu ^d   Li, Yuan ^a,b   Wolverton, Chris ^a   Wu, Jinsong ^a,b   Dravid, Vinayak P ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

alloying reaction; DFT calculation; in situ electron diffraction; in situ transmission electron microscopy; lithium ion battery; selenium cathodes; sodium ion battery

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CALCULATIONS; CATHODES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU PROCESSING; IONS; KINETICS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; METAL IONS; NANOTUBES; REACTION KINETICS; SELENIUM; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

DFT CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC AND IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; INTERMEDIATE PHASIS; MECHANISM AND KINETICS; SITU ELECTRON DIFFRACTIONS; SODIUM ION BATTERIES;

SECONDARY BATTERIES;

EID: 84989177722     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b04519     Document Type: Article

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