A sulfur host based on titanium monoxide@carbon hollow spheres for advanced lithium-sulfur batteries

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Jintao ^a   Guan, Buyuan ^a   Wang, Da ^b   Liu, Li Min ^b   Lou, X W ^a,c  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; LITHIUM; NANOSPHERE; SULFUR; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM MONOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; CARBON; COMPOSITE; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; INORGANIC COMPOUND; LITHIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84992364875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13065     Document Type: Article

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