High-capacity battery cathode prelithiation to offset initial lithium loss

Nature Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Sun, Yongming ^a   Lee, Hyun Wook ^a   Seh, Zhi Wei ^a   Liu, Nian ^a   Sun, Jie ^a   Li, Yuzhang ^a   Cui, Yi ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ANODES; CATHODES; COBALT COMPOUNDS; IONS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CELL CONFIGURATIONS; CONVERSION REACTIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; ENERGY DENSITY; GOOD COMPATIBILITY; HIGH CAPACITY ANODE; LITHIUM-ION-BATTERY TECHNOLOGY; PROCESSING CONDITION;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 85013167165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2015.8     Document Type: Article

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