High capacity vertical aligned carbon nanotube/sulfur composite cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries

Susanne Dörfler; Markus Hagen; Holger Althues; Jens Tübke; Stefan Kaskel; Michael J Hoffmann

doi:10.1039/c2cc17925c

High capacity vertical aligned carbon nanotube/sulfur composite cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Apr 28;48(34):4097-9. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17925c. Epub 2012 Mar 21.

Authors

Susanne Dörfler¹, Markus Hagen, Holger Althues, Jens Tübke, Stefan Kaskel, Michael J Hoffmann

Affiliation

¹ Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS), Winterbergstrasse 28, Dresden, Germany. susanne.doerfler@iws.fraunhofer.de

PMID: 22434326
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17925c

Abstract

Binder free vertical aligned (VA) CNT/sulfur composite electrodes with high sulfur loadings up to 70 wt% were synthesized delivering discharge capacities higher than 800 mAh g(-1) of the total composite electrode mass.