Lithium battery chemistries enabled by solid-state electrolytes

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Manthiram, Arumugam ^a   Yu, Xingwen ^a   Wang, Shaofei ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.103     Document Type: Review

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