Amorphous Carbon-Derived Nanosheet-Bricked Porous Graphite as High-Performance Cathode for Aluminum-Ion Batteries

Chunyan Zhang1, Rui He1, Jichen Zhang1

  • 1Hubei Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Hubei International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Sustainable Resource and Energy , Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072 , P. R. China.

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