Self-supporting sulfur cathodes enabled by two-dimensional carbon yolk-shell nanosheets for high-energy-density lithium-sulfur batteries

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Pei, Fei ^a   Lin, Lele ^a   Ou, Daohui ^a   Zheng, Zongmin ^a   Mo, Shiguang ^a   Fang, Xiaoliang ^a   Zheng, Nanfeng ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON YOLKSHELL NANOSHEET; GRAPHENE OXIDE; LITHIUM; NANOSHEET; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EGG; EGGSHELL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON DENSITY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; NANOPARTICLE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SULFUR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CYCLING; DEGRADATION; DENSITY; EGG YOLK; GENERAL DEVICE; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; SURFACE AREA; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 85029176451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00575-8     Document Type: Article

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