Graphene quantum dots: structural integrity and oxygen functional groups for high sulfur/sulfide utilization in lithium sulfur batteries

NPG Asia Materials - Tập 8 Số 5 - Trang e272-e272 - 2016
Jungjin Park1, Joonhee Moon2, Chunjoong Kim3, Jin Hyoun Kang2, Eunhak Lim2, Jaesung Park4, Kyung Jae Lee5, Seung‐Ho Yu5, Jung Hye Seo6, Jeong Yong Lee6, Jiyoung Heo7, Nobuo Tanaka8, Sung-Pyo Cho9, Jeffrey Pyun10, Jordi Cabana11, Byung Hee Hong2, Yung‐Eun Sung5
1School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
4Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
5Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea
6Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
7Department of Biomedical Technology, Sangmyung University, Chungnam, Republic of Korea
8EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
9National Center for Inter-University Research Facilities, Seoul National University 1 Gwank-ro Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
10Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
11Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL USA

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