Sulfur embedded in a mesoporous carbon nanotube network as a binder-free electrode for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1300-1308

  Sun, Li ^a,b   Wang, Datao ^b   Luo, Yufeng ^b   Wang, Ke ^b   Kong, Weibang ^b   Wu, Yang ^b   Zhang, Lina ^b   Jiang, Kaili ^b,c   Li, Qunqing ^b,c   Zhang, Yihe ^b   Wang, Jiaping ^b,c   Fan, Shoushan ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter   (China)

Author keywords

Binder free; Carbon nanotube; Carbon sulfur cathodes; Lithium sulfur batteries; Mesoporous

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; BINS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATHODES; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; NANOTUBES; POROUS MATERIALS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SULFUR; YARN;

BINDER FREE; CONTROLLED OXIDATIONS; DISPERSIVE BEHAVIORS; ENHANCED CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH RATE CAPABILITY; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; MESOPOROUS; SULFUR CATHODES;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84989332791     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b06675     Document Type: Article

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