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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,093 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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,403 Views
33 Pages

3 April 2024

Aqueous zinc–iodine batteries are considered to be one of the most promising devices for future electrical energy storage due to their low cost, high safety, high theoretical specific capacity, and multivalent properties. However, the shuttle e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,351 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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,718 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)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,729 Views
12 Pages

16 October 2022

To mitigate lithium dissolution and polysulfide shuttle effect phenomena in high-energy lithium sulfur batteries (LISBs), a conductive, flexible, and easily modified polymer composite layer was applied on the anode. The polymer composite layer includ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,455 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2022

The safety problem caused by lithium dendrite of lithium metal anode and the rapid capacity decay problem caused by the shuttle effect of polysulfide and polyselenide during the charge and discharge of selenium disulfide cathode limit the application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,268 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2022

The Lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery has a great potential to replace lithium-ion batteries due to its high-energy density. However, the “shuttle effect” of polysulfide intermediates (Li2S8, Li2S6, Li2S4, etc.) from the cathode can lead to r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,871 Views
12 Pages

Cobalt Nanocluster-Doped Carbon Micro-Spheres with Multilevel Porous Structure for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Wenming Song,
  • Changmeng Xu,
  • Mai Li,
  • Zhi Cheng,
  • Yunjie Liu,
  • Peng Wang and
  • Zhiming Liu

26 December 2022

Lithium-Sulfur batteries (Li-S batteries) have gained great interest in next-generation energy storage systems due to their high energy density and low-cost sulfur cathodes. There is, however, a serious obstacle in the commercial application of Li-S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,103 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
23 Citations
5,662 Views
9 Pages

A Bioinspired Functionalization of Polypropylene Separator for Lithium-Sulfur Battery

  • Zhijia Zhang,
  • Xuequan Li,
  • Yawen Yan,
  • Wenyi Zhu,
  • Li-Hua Shao and
  • Junsheng Li

22 April 2019

Lithium-sulfur batteries have received intensive attention, due to their high specific capacity, but the shuttle effect of soluble polysulfide results in a decrease in capacity. In response to this issue, we develop a novel tannic acid and Au nanopar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,985 Views
13 Pages

A 3D MoS2/Graphene Microsphere Coated Separator for Excellent Performance Li-S Batteries

  • Shuang Yang,
  • Junfan Zhang,
  • Taizhe Tan,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Ning Liu and
  • Haipeng Li

22 October 2018

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are the most prospective energy storage devices. Nevertheless, the poor conductivity of sulfur and the shuttling phenomenon of polysulfides hinder its application. In this paper, flower-like MoS2/graphene nanocomposite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
2,795 Views
10 Pages

Cationic Covalent Organic Framework as Separator Coating for High-Performance Lithium Selenium Disulfide Batteries

  • Jun Wang,
  • Jing-Ping Ke,
  • Zhen-Yi Wu,
  • Xiao-Na Zhong,
  • Song-Bai Zheng,
  • Yong-Jun Li and
  • Wen-Hua Zhao

30 June 2022

Selenium disulfide that combines the advantages of S and Se elements is a new material for Li-chalcogen battery cathodes. However, like Li-S batteries, the shuttle effect seriously restricts the performance of Li-SeS2 batteries. In this work, we have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,029 Views
12 Pages

Construction of KB@ZIF-8/PP Composite Separator for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries with Enhanced Electrochemical Performance

  • Bingyi Ma,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Xiaoqian Deng,
  • Sheng Huang,
  • Min Xiao,
  • Shuanjin Wang,
  • Dongmei Han and
  • Yuezhong Meng

1 December 2021

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) have attracted wide attention, but the shuttle effect of polysulfide hinders their further practical application. Herein, we develop a new strategy to construct a Ketjen black@zeolite imidazole framework-8/polypropylen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,224 Views
14 Pages

PEI/Super P Cathode Coating: A Pathway to Superior Lithium–Sulfur Battery Performance

  • Junhee Heo,
  • Gyeonguk Min,
  • Jae Bin Lee,
  • Patrick Joohyun Kim,
  • Kyuchul Shin,
  • In Woo Cheong,
  • Hyunchul Kang,
  • Songhun Yoon,
  • Won-Gwang Lim and
  • Jinwoo Lee
  • + 1 author

25 October 2023

Lithium–sulfur batteries exhibit a high energy density of 2500–2600 Wh/kg with affordability and environmental advantages, positioning them as a promising next-generation energy source. However, the insulating nature of sulfur/Li2S and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,018 Views
8 Pages

Suppressing Self-Discharge with Polymeric Sulfur in Li-S Batteries

  • Min Jiang,
  • Bingqing Gan,
  • Yongqi Deng,
  • Yin Xiong and
  • Ruixuan Tan

25 December 2018

Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries, due to their high theoretical capacity, intrinsic overcharge protection, and low cost, are considered as the most promising candidates for next-generation energy storage systems. To promote widespread use of Li-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,106 Views
12 Pages

6 February 2024

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have received extensive attention due to their numerous advantages, including a high theoretical specific capacity, high energy density, abundant reserves of sulfur in cathode materials, and low cost. Li&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,202 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,042 Views
12 Pages

A Multifunctional Coating on Sulfur-Containing Carbon-Based Anode for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries

  • Lin Zhu,
  • Bo Yin,
  • Yuting Zhang,
  • Qian Wu,
  • Hongqiang Xu,
  • Haojie Duan,
  • Meiqin Shi and
  • Haiyong He

10 April 2023

A sulfur doping strategy has been frequently used to improve the sodium storage specific capacity and rate capacity of hard carbon. However, some hard carbon materials have difficulty in preventing the shuttling effect of electrochemical products of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,930 Views
11 Pages

Boron Nitride Nanotube-Based Separator for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Hong-Sik Kim,
  • Hui-Ju Kang,
  • Hongjin Lim,
  • Hyun Jin Hwang,
  • Jae-Woo Park,
  • Tae-Gyu Lee,
  • Sung Yong Cho,
  • Se Gyu Jang and
  • Young-Si Jun

21 December 2021

To prevent global warming, ESS development is in progress along with the development of electric vehicles and renewable energy. However, the state-of-the-art technology, i.e., lithium-ion batteries, has reached its limitation, and thus the need for h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,884 Views
12 Pages

Biomass-Derived Carbon/Sulfur Composite Cathodes with Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Coatings for Li-S Batteries

  • Lina Han,
  • Zemin Li,
  • Yang Feng,
  • Lijiang Wang,
  • Bowen Li,
  • Zijie Lei,
  • Wenyan Wang and
  • Weiwei Huang

10 January 2022

Lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries stand out among many new batteries for their high energy density. However, the intermediate charge–discharge product dissolves easily into the electrolyte to produce a shuttle effect, which is a key factor limiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,843 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2023

Lithium–sulfur batteries have emerged as one of the promising next-generation energy storage devices. However, the dissolution and shuttling of polysulfides in the electrolyte leads to a rapid decrease in capacity, severe self-discharge, and po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,520 Views
11 Pages

Ni-NiS Heterojunction Composite-Coated Separator for High-Performance Lithium Sulfur Battery

  • Jun Wang,
  • Zhen-Yi Wu,
  • Xiao-Na Zhong,
  • Yongjun Li and
  • Shuqin Han

15 October 2022

The shuttle effect and slow REDOX kinetics of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) lead to low sulfur utilization rate, short cycle life, poor rate performance, which hinder the application of Li–S batteries. Herein, the Ni-NiS/NCF heterojunction composite w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,734 Views
14 Pages

24 October 2023

The search for a high-energy-density alternative to lithium-ion batteries has led to great interest in the lithium sulfur battery (LSB). However, poor cycle lifetimes and coulombic efficiencies (CEs) due to detrimental lithium polysulfide (LiPS) shut...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,076 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,271 Views
15 Pages

15 April 2021

With a higher theoretical specific capacity (1675 mAh g−1) and energy density (2600 Wh kg−1), the lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery is considered as a promising candidate for a next-generation energy storage device. However, the shuttle effect of polysul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,010 Views
12 Pages

27 January 2024

Lithium–sulfur batteries offer the potential for significantly higher energy density and cost-effectiveness. However, their progress has been hindered by challenges such as the “shuttle effect” caused by lithium polysulfides and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,745 Views
12 Pages

An Integrated Na2S−Electrocatalyst Nanostructured Cathode for Sodium–Sulfur Batteries at Room Temperature

  • Sichang Ma,
  • Yueming Zhu,
  • Yadong Yang,
  • Dongyang Li,
  • Wendong Tan,
  • Ling Gao,
  • Wanwei Zhao,
  • Wenbo Liu,
  • Wenyu Liang and
  • Rui Xu

27 December 2024

Room-temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries offer a superior, high-energy-density solution for rechargeable batteries using earth-abundant materials. However, conventional RT Na–S batteries typically use sulfur as the cathode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,725 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,298 Views
12 Pages

19 December 2022

Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have attracted extensive attention due to their high energy density and low cost. The separator is a key component of LSBs. An excellent LSBs separator requires not only good electrolyte wettability, but also high ther...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,855 Views
14 Pages

Mitigating Polysulfide Shuttles with Upcycled Alkali Metal Terephthalate Decorated Separators

  • Daniel A. Gribble,
  • Zih-Yu Lin,
  • Sourav Ghosh,
  • Brett M. Savoie and
  • Vilas G. Pol

23 November 2022

High energy density lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are a potential replacement for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, practical lifetimes are inhibited by lithium polysulfide (LiPS) shuttling. Concurrently, plastic waste accumulation world...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,241 Views
17 Pages

26 March 2018

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have been identified as the greatest potential next- generation energy-storage systems because of the large theoretical energy density of 2600 Wh kg−1. However, its practical application on a massive scale is impeded b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,515 Views
24 Pages

Recent Advancements in Selenium-Based Cathode Materials for Lithium Batteries: A Mini-Review

  • Mustafa Khan,
  • Xuli Ding,
  • Hongda Zhao,
  • Yuxin Wang,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Xiaojing Chen and
  • Jiahao Xu

Selenium (Se)-based cathode materials have garnered considerable interest for lithium-ion batteries due to their numerous advantages, including low cost, high volumetric capacity (3268 mAh cm−3), high density (4.82 g cm−3), ability to be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,391 Views
11 Pages

Porous Activated Carbons Derived from Coffee Waste for Use as Functional Separators in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

  • Jae-Hoon Shin,
  • Yu-Yeon Park,
  • Sang-Hyun Moon,
  • Ji-Hwan Kim,
  • Jae-Sung Jang,
  • Sung-Beom Kim,
  • Seong-Nam Lee and
  • Kyung-Won Park

27 October 2022

A novel approach has been proposed for improving the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) with a carbon-based material as an interlayer between the cathode and separator. With this method, the cross-over of lithium polysulfides (LiPS) to th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,519 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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,272 Views
16 Pages

Conductive Polymer-Based Interlayers in Restraining the Polysulfide Shuttle of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Xincheng Hu,
  • Xiaoshuang Zhu,
  • Zhongshuai Ran,
  • Shenghao Liu,
  • Yongya Zhang,
  • Hua Wang and
  • Wei Wei

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered a promising candidate for next-generation energy storage devices due to the advantages of high theoretical specific capacity, abundant resources and being environmentally friendly. However, the sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,882 Views
12 Pages

6 July 2022

Porous adsorbent material is promising to be used to regeneratively remove CO2 from space shuttles. In this work, the amount and isosteric heat of CO2 adsorption in solid amine are experimentally studied at pressures ranging from 0 to 6 bar and tempe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,513 Views
18 Pages

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs), with a high energy density (2600 Wh kg−1) and theoretical specific capacity (1672 mA h g−1), are considered the most promising next-generation rechargeable energy storage devices. However, polysulfid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,231 Views
11 Pages

30 July 2024

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) have attracted widespread attention due to their high theoretical energy density and low cost. However, their development has been constrained by the shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides and their slow reaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,691 Views
11 Pages

Fabrication of a Covalent Triazine Framework Functional Interlayer for High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Ben Hu,
  • Bing Ding,
  • Chong Xu,
  • Zengjie Fan,
  • Derong Luo,
  • Peng Li,
  • Hui Dou and
  • Xiaogang Zhang

14 January 2022

The shuttling effect of polysulfides is one of the major problems of lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries, which causes rapid capacity fading during cycling. Modification of the commercial separator with a functional interlayer is an effective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,875 Views
9 Pages

Pt3Ni@C Composite Material Designed and Prepared Based on Volcanic Catalytic Curve and Its High-Performance Static Lithium Polysulfide Semiliquid Battery

  • Ying Wang,
  • Yao Yao,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Jiyue Hou,
  • Zhicong Ni,
  • Yanjie Wang,
  • Xiuqiong Hu,
  • Yanzhong Sun,
  • Rui Ai and
  • Yulin Xian
  • + 4 authors

16 December 2021

There are many challenges for the Static lithium polysulfide semiliquid battery in its commercial application, such as poor stability of the cathode material and further amplification of the lithium polysulfide shuttle effect. Therefore, this manuscr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,314 Views
11 Pages

Metal-N4@Graphene as Multifunctional Anchoring Materials for Na-S Batteries: First-Principles Study

  • Kaishuai Yang,
  • Dayong Liu,
  • Yiling Sun,
  • Zhengfang Qian,
  • Shengkui Zhong and
  • Renheng Wang

Developing highly efficient anchoring materials to suppress sodium polysulfides (NaPSs) shuttling is vital for the practical applications of sodium sulfur (Na-S) batteries. Herein, we systematically investigated pristine graphene and metal-N4@graphen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,990 Views
12 Pages

The lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery has been regarded as an important candidate for the next-generation energy storage system due to its high theoretical capacity (1675 mAh g−1) and high energy density (2600 Wh kg−1). However, the shuttle e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,840 Views
25 Pages

Construction of MXene-Based Heterostructured Hybrid Separators for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

  • Xiao Zhang,
  • Guijie Jin,
  • Min Mao,
  • Zirui Wang,
  • Tianyu Xu,
  • Tongtao Wan and
  • Jinsheng Zhao

19 April 2025

The advancement of lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries has been hindered by the shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) and sluggish redox kinetics. The engineering of functional hybrid separators is a relatively simple and effective coping...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,469 Views
12 Pages

20 January 2020

Due to the “shuttle effect”, the cycle performance of lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery is poor and the capacity decays rapidly. Replacing lithium-ion battery is the maximum problem to be overcome. In order to solve this problem, we use a cag...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,922 Views
33 Pages

2 July 2025

Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs), possessing excellent theoretical capacities, advanced theoretical energy densities, low cost, and nontoxicity, are one of the most promising energy storage battery systems. However, some issues, including poor c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,517 Views
13 Pages

1 October 2024

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a promising option for energy storage due to their theoretical high energy density and the use of abundant, low-cost sulfur cathodes. Nevertheless, several obstacles remain, including the dissolution of lithium pol...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,997 Views
25 Pages

1 September 2025

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and their derivatives have emerged as promising candidates for separator engineering in lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs). This is attributed to their structural tunability, high porosity, and chemical versat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,315 Views
13 Pages

ZIF-67-Derived Flexible Sulfur Cathode with Improved Redox Kinetics for High-Performance Li-S Batteries

  • Chen Cheng,
  • Hanyan Wu,
  • Xinyang Chen,
  • Shuiping Cai,
  • Yingkang Tian,
  • Xiaofei Yang and
  • Xuejie Gao

17 April 2024

Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries have received much attention due to their high energy density and low price. In recent years, alleviating the volume expansion and suppressing the shuttle effect during the charge and discharge processes of Li-S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
975 Views
13 Pages

7 November 2024

SexSy composite cathode materials, which offer superior theoretical capacity compared to pure selenium and improved electrochemical properties relative to pure sulfur, have aroused considerable interest in recent decades on account of their applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
994 Views
14 Pages

Dual-Strategy Design Based on Polymer–Matrix Composite Cathode and Coated Separator for High-Performance Lithium–Iron Disulfide Batteries

  • Fan Zhang,
  • Qiang Lu,
  • Jiachen Li,
  • Qiongyue Zhang,
  • Haotian Yu,
  • Yahao Wang,
  • Jinrui Li,
  • Haodong Ren,
  • Huirong Liang and
  • Fei Shen
  • + 1 author

29 August 2025

Lithium–iron disulfide (Li-FeS2) batteries are plagued by the polysulfide shuttle effect and cathode structural degradation, which significantly hinder their practical application. This study proposes a dual-strategy design that combines a poly...

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