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12 Citations
5,889 Views
21 Pages

28 June 2022

In the context of the rising demand for electric storage systems, lithium–sulfur batteries provide an attractive solution for low-weight and high-energy battery systems. Considering circular economy for new technologies, it is necessary to assu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Science Based Concepts for Increased Efficiency in Battery Recycling 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,082 Views
12 Pages

Identification of Soluble Degradation Products in Lithium–Sulfur and Lithium-Metal Sulfide Batteries

  • Fabian Horsthemke,
  • Christoph Peschel,
  • Kristina Kösters,
  • Sascha Nowak,
  • Kentaro Kuratani,
  • Tomonari Takeuchi,
  • Hitoshi Mikuriya,
  • Florian Schmidt,
  • Hikari Sakaebe and
  • Simon Wiemers-Meyer
  • + 4 authors

Most commercially available lithium ion battery systems and some of their possible successors, such as lithium (metal)-sulfur batteries, rely on liquid organic electrolytes. Since the electrolyte is in contact with both the negative and the positive...

(This article belongs to the Collection State-of-the-Art Separation and Analytical Methods in Energies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
114 Citations
19,222 Views
12 Pages

Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium/Sulfur Batteries

  • Yan Zhao,
  • Yongguang Zhang,
  • Denise Gosselink,
  • The Nam Long Doan,
  • Mikhail Sadhu,
  • Ho-Jae Cheang and
  • Pu Chen

9 August 2012

This review evaluates the characteristics and advantages of employing polymer electrolytes in lithium/sulfur (Li/S) batteries. The main highlights of this study constitute detailed information on the advanced developments for solid polymer electrolyt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,423 Views
35 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries: Properties, Challenges, and Applications

  • Joshua Meeks,
  • Milo Lawley,
  • Nathan Ly,
  • Renae Maxson,
  • Nolan Mayberry,
  • Subin Antony Jose and
  • Pradeep L. Menezes

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have emerged as a promising next-generation energy storage solution as the capacity demands on lithium-ion systems begin to exceed practical limits. In a global push for renewable energy and sustainable pra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,875 Views
11 Pages

4 September 2024

This paper presents a composed lithium phosphate (LiPON) solid electrolyte interface (SEI) film which was coated on a lithium electrode via an electrodeposit method in a lithium–sulfur battery, and the structure of the product was characterized...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrochemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
932 Views
28 Pages

Catalytic Effects of Nanocage Heterostructures in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Tianhao Ding,
  • Haiyan Zhu,
  • Zhequn Ren,
  • Shanlin Chen,
  • Jianxiao Shang,
  • Tingting Li,
  • Guohao Yin,
  • Yuyuan Huang,
  • Shaobo Jia and
  • Yawei Li
  • + 1 author

2 January 2026

With the increasing demand for high-energy-density energy storage systems in electric vehicles, smart grids, and portable electronic devices, the energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries is approaching its theoretical limit. Lithium-sulfur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Catalytic Conversion of Small Molecules for Energy and Environmental Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,170 Views
16 Pages

Microporous Carbon Nanoparticles for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Hui-Ju Kang,
  • Gazi A. K. M. Rafiqul Bari,
  • Tae-Gyu Lee,
  • Tamal Tahsin Khan,
  • Jae-Woo Park,
  • Hyun Jin Hwang,
  • Sung Yong Cho and
  • Young-Si Jun

12 October 2020

Rechargeable lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are emerging as some of the most promising next-generation battery alternatives to state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their high gravimetric energy density, being inexpensive, and h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Nanomaterials for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries and Beyond)
  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
8,083 Views
34 Pages

Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Advances and Trends

  • Claudia V. Lopez,
  • Charini P. Maladeniya and
  • Rhett C. Smith

A review with 132 references. Societal and regulatory pressures are pushing industry towards more sustainable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, while the growing popularity of portable cordless electronic devices continues. These trends n...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,079 Views
15 Pages

Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Progress and Challenges

  • Mingxun Jia,
  • Tunan Li,
  • Daotong Yang,
  • Luhua Lu,
  • Limei Duan,
  • Jinghai Liu and
  • Tong Wu

25 September 2023

The lithium-sulfur battery has garnered significant attention from both researchers and industry due to its exceptional energy density and capacity. However, the conventional liquid electrolyte poses safety concerns due to its low boiling point, henc...

(This article belongs to the Section Lithium-Ion and Solid-State Batteries)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,688 Views
26 Pages

Cellulose-Based Materials and Their Application in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Muriel Zampieri,
  • Guillermina Tommasone,
  • Luciana Morel and
  • Guillermina Leticia Luque

10 January 2025

Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries are promising candidates for next-generation energy storage due to their high energy density, cost-effectiveness, and environmental friendliness. However, their commercialization is hindered by challenges, such a...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,361 Views
12 Pages

A robust lithium-sulfur (Li–S) battery is constituted by a wide range of optimized fundamental parameters (e.g., amount of electrolyte, electrolyte additive, sulfur loading density, and the size of sulfur particles). In this paper, some other o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,783 Views
11 Pages

Capacity Recovery Effect in Lithium Sulfur Batteries for Electric Vehicles

  • Christian Maurer,
  • Walter Commerell,
  • Andreas Hintennach and
  • Andreas Jossen

Lithium sulfur batteries have a promisingly high theoretical specific energy density of about 2600 Wh/kg and an expected practical specific energy density of about 500–600 Wh/kg. Therefore, it is a highly promising future energy storage technology fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from The 30th International Electric Vehicles Symposium and Exhibition (Stuttgart, Germany))
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,028 Views
21 Pages

Research Progress on Multifunctional Modified Separator for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Ying Wang,
  • Rui Ai,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Xiuqiong Hu,
  • Yuejing Zeng,
  • Jiyue Hou,
  • Jinbao Zhao,
  • Yingjie Zhang,
  • Yiyong Zhang and
  • Xue Li

16 February 2023

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are recognized as one of the second-generation electrochemical energy storage systems with the most potential due to their high theoretical specific capacity of the sulfur cathode (1675 mAhg−1), abundant el...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,100 Views
14 Pages

Comparative Study of Lithium Halide-Based Electrolytes for Application in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Eleonora Venezia,
  • Pejman Salimi,
  • Shanshan Liang,
  • Silvio Fugattini,
  • Lorenzo Carbone and
  • Remo Proietti Zaccaria

19 February 2023

Among the next-generation energy storage technologies, lithium-sulfur batteries are considered one of the most appealing solutions owing to their remarkable theoretical capacity. However, to become commercially competitive, there is a strong need to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Metal Batteries)
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,145 Views
15 Pages

A Review of the Application of Modified Separators in Inhibiting the “shuttle effect” of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Bo-Wen Zhang,
  • Bo Sun,
  • Pei Fu,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Chen Zhu,
  • Bao-Ming Xu,
  • Yong Pan and
  • Chi Chen

17 August 2022

Lithium-sulfur batteries with high theoretical specific capacity and high energy density are considered to be one of the most promising energy storage devices. However, the “shuttle effect” caused by the soluble polysulphide intermediates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mixed-Matrix Membranes and Polymeric Membranes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,860 Views
9 Pages

Thiokol with Excellent Restriction on the Shuttle Effect in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Bin Liu,
  • Shan Wang,
  • Quanling Yang,
  • Guo-Hua Hu and
  • Chuanxi Xiong

9 January 2018

Commercial application of lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries is still greatly hampered by several issues, especially the shuttle effect of polysulfides. In this work, we proposed a simple but effective method to restrain the shuttle of the soluble polys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries/Super-capacitors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,270 Views
12 Pages

3 August 2023

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) have become the most promising choice in the new generation of energy storage/conversion equipment due to their high theoretical capacity of 1675 mAh g−1 and theoretical energy density of 2600 Wh kg−1...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy and Catalysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,269 Views
27 Pages

Theoretical Calculations Facilitating Catalysis for Advanced Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Xue-Ting Fang,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Chunguang Chen,
  • Dmitri L. Danilov,
  • Fen Qiao,
  • Haitao Li and
  • Peter H. L. Notten

27 October 2023

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have emerged as one of the most hopeful alternatives for energy storage systems. However, the commercialization of Li-S batteries is still confronted with enormous hurdles. The poor conductivity of sulfur cathodes indu...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Chemistry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,087 Views
13 Pages

Tubular C3N4 Nanotubes as Metal-Free Sulfur Hosts toward Stable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Chaoqi Zhang,
  • Ruifeng Du,
  • Sara Martí-Sánchez,
  • Ke Xiao,
  • Dawei Yang,
  • Chaoyue Zhang,
  • Canhuang Li,
  • Guifang Zeng,
  • Xingqi Chang and
  • Andreu Cabot
  • + 4 authors

6 June 2023

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) with high energy density have the potential to replace current commercial lithium-ion batteries. However, the shuttle effect and the low conversion kinetics of lithium polysulfide (LiPS) remain the main challenge...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,358 Views
31 Pages

18 June 2023

With the escalating demand for electrochemical energy storage, commercial lithium-ion and metal battery systems have been increasingly developed. As an indispensable component of batteries, the separator plays a crucial role in determining their elec...

(This article belongs to the Section Carbon Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,193 Views
11 Pages

Macroporous Activated Carbon Derived from Rapeseed Shell for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Mingbo Zheng,
  • Qin Hu,
  • Songtao Zhang,
  • Hao Tang,
  • Lulu Li and
  • Huan Pang

10 October 2017

Lithium–sulfur batteries have drawn considerable attention because of their extremely high energy density. Activated carbon (AC) is an ideal matrix for sulfur because of its high specific surface area, large pore volume, small-size nanopores, and sim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries/Super-capacitors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,389 Views
14 Pages

Dual Extended Kalman Filter for State of Charge Estimation of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Lluís Trilla,
  • Lluc Canals Casals,
  • Jordi Jacas and
  • Pol Paradell

23 September 2022

Lithium-Sulfur is a promising technology for the next generation of batteries and research efforts for early-stage prototype implementation increased in recent years. For the development of a suitable Battery Management System, a state estimator is r...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,242 Views
3 Pages

The sulfur-containing PAN composite cathode materials for lithium/sulfur batteries were prepared by suspension polymerization method and electrochemical properties of lithium/sulfur cells were investigated. The sulfur composite cathode was characteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,241 Views
16 Pages

Hierarchically Porous Carbon Microspheres Coated with MnO2 Nanosheets as the Sulfur Host for High-Loading Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Liqin Dai,
  • Zonglin Yi,
  • Lijing Xie,
  • Fangyuan Su,
  • Xiaoqian Guo,
  • Zhenbing Wang,
  • Jiayao Cheng and
  • Chengmeng Chen

13 December 2024

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have emerged as a promising candidate for next-generation high-energy rechargeable lithium batteries, but their practical application is impeded by the sluggish redox kinetics and low sulfur loading. Here,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,627 Views
22 Pages

14 October 2022

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) represent a promising next-generation energy storage system, with advantages such as high specific capacity (1675 mAh g−1), abundant resources, low price, and ecological friendliness. During the application...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,441 Views
10 Pages

Stable High-Capacity Elemental Sulfur Cathodes with Simple Process for Lithium Sulfur Batteries

  • Shunsuke Sawada,
  • Hideki Yoshida,
  • Shalom Luski,
  • Elena Markevich,
  • Gregory Salitra,
  • Yuval Elias and
  • Doron Aurbach

Lithium sulfur batteries are suitable for drones due to their high gravimetric energy density (2600 Wh/kg of sulfur). However, on the cathode side, high specific capacity with high sulfur loading (high areal capacity) is challenging due to the poor c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Potential Strategies in Electrochemical Energy Storage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,652 Views
12 Pages

22 June 2024

Although lithium–sulfur batteries possess the advantage of high theoretical specific capacity, the inevitable shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides is still a difficult problem restricting its application. The design of highly active catalysts...

(This article belongs to the Topic Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,914 Views
12 Pages

15 March 2023

The high theoretical charge-storage capacity and energy density of lithium–sulfur batteries make them a promising next-generation energy-storage system. However, liquid polysulfides are highly soluble in the electrolytes used in lithium–s...

(This article belongs to the Collection Electrochemical-Storage Technology with Polymer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
13,035 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2018

The quest towards increasing the energy density of traction battery technologies has led to the emergence and diversification of battery materials. The lithium sulfur battery (LSB) is in this regard a promising material for batteries due to its speci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards a Transformation to Sustainable Aviation Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,650 Views
22 Pages

Modification and Functionalization of Separators for High Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Mengyu Shen,
  • Songshi Xu,
  • Xiuyu Wang,
  • Yonghui Zhang,
  • Yu Feng,
  • Fei Xing,
  • Yingying Yang and
  • Qiqian Gao

24 October 2024

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSB) have been recognized as a prominent potential next-generation energy storage system, owing to their substantial theoretical specific capacity (1675 mAh g−1) and high energy density (2600 Wh kg−1). In a...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,478 Views
12 Pages

Micro-Spherical Sulfur/Graphene Oxide Composite via Spray Drying for High Performance Lithium Sulfur Batteries

  • Yuan Tian,
  • Zhenghao Sun,
  • Yongguang Zhang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Zhumabay Bakenov and
  • Fuxing Yin

18 January 2018

An efficient, industry-accepted spray drying method was used to synthesize micro-spherical sulfur/graphene oxide (S/GO) composites as cathode materials within lithium sulfur batteries. The as-designed wrapping of the sulfur-nanoparticles, with wrinkl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,855 Views
13 Pages

12 July 2023

An interlayer nanocomposite (CC@rGO) consisting of a graphene heterojunction with CoO and Co9S8 was prepared using a simple and low-cost hydrothermal calcination method, which was tested as a cathode sulfur carrier for lithium-sulfur batteries. The C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experimental Testing, Manufacturing and Numerical Modelling of Composite and Sandwich Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,001 Views
8 Pages

Mn3O4 Octahedral Microparticles Prepared by Facile Dealloying Process as Efficient Sulfur Hosts for Lithium/Sulfur Batteries

  • Yan Zhao,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Xiaomin Zhang,
  • Zhifeng Wang,
  • Taizhe Tan,
  • Zhihong Chen and
  • Yichao Wang

4 July 2018

A facile and industry-accepted dealloying method was used to synthesize Mn3O4 particles, which were then employed to prepare sulfur/Mn3O4 (S/Mn3O4) composites as cathode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries. The composites delivered initial dischar...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,864 Views
57 Pages

Progress and Prospect of Practical Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Based on Solid-Phase Conversion

  • Yikun Yi,
  • Feng Hai,
  • Jingyu Guo,
  • Xiaolu Tian,
  • Shentuo Zheng,
  • Zhendi Wu,
  • Tao Wang and
  • Mingtao Li

29 December 2022

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries hold great promise in the field of power and energy storage due to their high theoretical capacity and energy density. However, the “shuttle effect” that originates from the dissolution of inter...

(This article belongs to the Section Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,036 Views
19 Pages

Challenges and Solutions for Low-Temperature Lithium–Sulfur Batteries: A Review

  • Yiming Liu,
  • Tian Qin,
  • Pengxian Wang,
  • Menglei Yuan,
  • Qiongguang Li and
  • Shaojie Feng

13 June 2023

The lithium–sulfur (Li-S) battery is considered to be one of the attractive candidates for breaking the limit of specific energy of lithium-ion batteries and has the potential to conquer the related energy storage market due to its advantages o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Functional Materials toward Sustainable Development Technologies: Prospect and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,731 Views
13 Pages

Multifunctional Vanadium Nitride-Modified Separator for High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Sen Liu,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Maoqiang Shen,
  • Xuesen Liu,
  • Xinyue Gao,
  • Linrui Hou and
  • Changzhou Yuan

10 April 2024

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are recognized as among the best potential alternative battery systems to lithium-ion batteries and have been widely investigated. However, the shuttle effect has severely restricted the advancement in their prac...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy and Catalysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,205 Views
45 Pages

6 December 2022

Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries are considered as among the most promising electrochemical energy storage devices due to their high theoretical energy density and low cost. However, the inherently complex electrochemical mechanism in Li-S batte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Novel Nanostructured Materials for Electrocatalysis–Trends and Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,405 Views
9 Pages

Scalable Ni12P5-Coated Carbon Cloth Cathode for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Artur M. Suzanowicz,
  • Thulitha M. Abeywickrama,
  • Hao Lin,
  • Dana Alramahi,
  • Carlo U. Segre and
  • Braja K. Mandal

31 August 2024

As a better alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) stand out because of their multi-electron redox reactions and high theoretical specific capacity (1675 mA h g−1). However, the long-term stability of...

(This article belongs to the Section D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,660 Views
10 Pages

Flexible Carbon Nanotube Modified Separator for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Bin Liu,
  • Xiaomeng Wu,
  • Shan Wang,
  • Zhen Tang,
  • Quanling Yang,
  • Guo-Hua Hu and
  • Chuanxi Xiong

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have become promising candidates for electrical energy storage systems due to their high theoretical specific energy density, low cost and environmental friendliness. However, there are some technical obstacles of lith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Developments in Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Conversions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,878 Views
10 Pages

Synthesis of a Flexible Freestanding Sulfur/Polyacrylonitrile/Graphene Oxide as the Cathode for Lithium/Sulfur Batteries

  • Huifen Peng,
  • Xiaoran Wang,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Taizhe Tan,
  • Zhumabay Bakenov and
  • Yongguang Zhang

3 April 2018

Rechargeable lithium/sulfur (Li/S) batteries have received quite significant attention over the years because of their high theoretical specific capacity (1672 mAh·g−1) and energy density (2600 mAh·g−1) which has led to more...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,902 Views
31 Pages

Breaking the Barrier: Strategies for Mitigating Shuttle Effect in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Using Advanced Separators

  • Yingbao Zhu,
  • Zhou Chen,
  • Hui Chen,
  • Xuguang Fu,
  • Desire Emefa Awuye,
  • Xichen Yin and
  • Yixuan Zhao

30 September 2023

Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries are considered one of the most promising energy storage systems due to their high theoretical capacity, high theoretical capacity density, and low cost. However, challenges such as poor conductivity of sulfur (S)...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Membranes and Films)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,153 Views
19 Pages

Effects of Electrospun Carbon Nanofibers’ Interlayers on High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Tianji Gao,
  • TrungHieu Le,
  • Ying Yang,
  • Zhihao Yu,
  • Zhenghong Huang and
  • Feiyu Kang

31 March 2017

Two different interlayers were introduced in lithium–sulfur batteries to improve the cycling stability with sulfur loading as high as 80% of total mass of cathode. Melamine was recommended as a nitrogen-rich (N-rich) amine component to synthesize a m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors and Batteries)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,371 Views
12 Pages

Porous Nb2O5 Formed by Anodic Oxidation as the Sulfur Host for Enhanced Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Jianming Wang,
  • Lu Chen,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Chunyong Liang,
  • Hongshui Wang and
  • Yongguang Zhang

20 February 2023

Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs), with their high theoretical specific capacity and energy density, have great potential to be a candidate for secondary batteries in the future. However, Li-S batteries suffer from multiple issues and challenges, for e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,825 Views
28 Pages

25 April 2021

The global energy crisis and environmental problems are becoming increasingly serious. It is now urgent to vigorously develop an efficient energy storage system. Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered to be one of the most promising candidate...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,536 Views
10 Pages

Beaded CoSe2-C Nanofibers for High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Jing Xu,
  • Juan Ao,
  • Yonghui Xie,
  • Yumei Zhou and
  • Xinghui Wang

4 September 2023

Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries are regarded as highly promising energy storage devices due to their high theoretical specific capacity and high energy density. Nevertheless, the commercial application of Li-S batteries is still restricted by p...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanocomposite Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,403 Views
10 Pages

13 August 2019

The commercialization of Lithium-sulfur batteries was limited by the polysulfide shuttle effect, and modifying the routine separator was an effective method to solve this problem. In this work, a novel hierarchically porous polypyrrole sphere (PPS) w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,233 Views
10 Pages

20 August 2018

In the present study, a novel sulfur/lithium-ion full battery was assembled while using ternary sulfur/polyacrylonitrile/SiO2 (S/PAN/SiO2) composite as the cathode and prelithiated graphite as the anode. For anode, Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,383 Views
13 Pages

In this study, we developed lithium–sulfur rechargeable batteries using chemically modified thermoplastic sulfur polymers as cathode active materials, aiming to effectively utilize surplus sulfur resources. The resulting high-sulfur-content res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,080 Views
9 Pages

29 April 2021

Heteroatom doping is regarded as a promising approach to enhance the electrochemical performance of carbon materials, while the poor controllability of heteroatoms remains the main challenge. In this context, sulfur-doped graphdiyne (S-GDY) was succe...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy and Catalysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,363 Views
11 Pages

Polyglutamic Acid Binder for High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Zhiyuan Pang,
  • Hongzhou Zhang,
  • Yue Ma,
  • Dawei Song,
  • Xixi Shi,
  • Lianqi Zhang and
  • Yong Zhou

29 September 2022

Binders play a very important part in electrodes, as they closely bind active materials, conductive agents, and current collectors together. The application of binders is critical to the electrochemical performance of Li-S batteries. Herein, a series...

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