Electrochemical Lithiation of Covalently Bonded Sulfur in Vulcanized Polyisoprene

ACS Energy Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 115-120

  Fu, Chengyin ^a   Li, Guanghui ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Cornejo, Benjamin ^a   Piao, Sophie S ^c   Bozhilov, Krassimir N ^b   Haddon, Robert C ^a,b   Guo, Juchen ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; LITHIUM BATTERIES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGE TRANSFER PROCESS; COVALENTLY BONDED; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL LITHIATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; GALVANOSTATIC CYCLING; LITHIATION PROCESS;

SULFUR;

EID: 85009980805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23808195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00073     Document Type: Article

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