Advanced rechargeable aluminium ion battery with a high-quality natural graphite cathode

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wang, Di Yan ^a,b,c   Wei, Chuan Yu ^a,d   Lin, Meng Chang ^c,e   Pan, Chun Jern ^c,f   Chou, Hung Lung ^f   Chen, Hsin An ^d   Gong, Ming ^c   Wu, Yingpeng ^c   Yuan, Chunze ^c   Angell, Michael ^c   Hsieh, Yu Ju ^a   Chen, Yu Hsun ^a   Wen, Cheng Yen ^d   Chen, Chun Wei ^d   Hwang, Bing Joe ^f,g   Chen, Chia Chun ^a,h   Dai, Hongjie ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^h ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ANION; GRAPHITE; ION; IONIC LIQUID; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ALUMINUM; ANION; CARBON; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRODE; GRAPHITE; IONIC LIQUID; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINIUM ION BATTERY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CURRENT DENSITY; CYCLING; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85012256391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14283     Document Type: Article

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