Ruthenium functionalized graphene aerogels with hierarchical and three-dimensional porosity as a free-standing cathode for rechargeable lithium-oxygen batteries

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages e239-

  Jiang, Jie ^a   He, Ping ^a   Tong, Shengfu ^a   Zheng, Mingbo ^a   Lin, Zixia ^a   Zhang, Xueping ^a   Shi, Yi ^a   Zhou, Haoshen ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; CATHODES; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ELECTROLYTES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAPHENE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN; POROSITY; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

APROTIC ELECTROLYTES; CYCLING RETENTION; FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE; HIERARCHICAL PORES; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; LITHIUM-OXYGEN BATTERIES; MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS; REACTION MECHANISM;

LITHIUM-AIR BATTERIES;

EID: 85062378847     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2015.141     Document Type: Article

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