The Office of Research and Innovation congratulates Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zhang Ying as one of the corresponding authors of a paper entitled “Reduced graphene oxide coated porous carbon–sulfur nanofiber as a flexible paper electrode for lithium–sulfur batteries” in Nanoscale, a tier-1 SCI journal in Engineering. This paper is authored by nine scientists from Xiamen University and Xiamen University Malaysia.

The authors stated the significance of their study:
“A reduced graphene oxide coated porous carbon nanofiber flexible paper (rGO@S-PCNP) was fabricated and directly used as an additive-free cathode for Li–S batteries. The rGO@S-PCNP composite with a sulfur content of 58.4 wt% delivers a high discharge capacity of 623.7 mA h g−1 after 200 cycles at 0.1 C (1 C = 1675 mA g−1) with the average Coulombic efficiency of 97.1%. The results show that rGO@S-PCNP is effective at relieving the shuttle effect and improving the conductivity, thus achieving high electrochemical performance. This facile strategy brings great significance for large-scale industrial fabrication of flexible lithium–sulfur batteries.”

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zhang Ying had contributed in verifying and approving the protocols and experimental design. She also provided critical feedback and helped to shape the research, analysis, and final manuscript.

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Chu et al., 2017, Nanoscale, 9, 9129-9138  

This paper was published on 2 June 2017 (http://pubs.rsc.org/-/content/articlelanding/2017/nr/c7nr02423a/unauth#!divAbstract).