Carbon nanotube-encapsulated noble metal nanoparticle hybrid as a cathode material for Li-oxygen batteries

• Main Authors: Huang, Xin, Yu, Hong, Tan, Huiteng, Zhang, Wenyu, Zhu, Jixin, Wang, Chengyuan, Zhang, Jun, Wang, Yuxi, Lv, Yunbo, Zeng, Zhi, Liu, Dayong, Ding, Jun, Zhang, Qichun, Srinivasan, Madhavi, Ajayan, Pulickel M., Hng, Huey Hoon, Yan, Qingyu
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Functional materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106184; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20688
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although Li-oxygen batteries offer extremely high theoretical specific energy, their practical application still faces critical challenges. One of the main obstacles is the high charge overpotential caused by sluggish kinetics of charge transfer that is closely related to the morphology of discharge...