Ultrafine Sn nanocrystals in a hierarchically porous N-doped carbon for lithium ion batteries

Nano Research

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1950-1958

  Chang, Xinghua ^a,b   Wang, Teng ^a   Liu, Zhiliang ^a   Zheng, Xinyao ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a   Li, Xingguo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

lithium ion battery (LIB); nanocomposite; polyaniline; Sn

Indexed keywords

ANILINE; ANODES; CARBON; DOPING (ADDITIVES); IONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYANILINE; TIN;

ANODE MATERIAL; ANODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; HIERARCHICAL POROSITY; HIERARCHICALLY POROUS; PREPARATION METHOD; REVERSIBLE SPECIFIC CAPACITY; THERMAL REDUCTION;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 85009772385     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-016-1381-6     Document Type: Article

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