Toward Practical Li–S Batteries: On the Road to a New Electrolyte

X Song, X Liang, J Eko, HH Sun, JM Kim… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The lithium–sulfur (Li–S) battery system has attracted considerable attention due to its
ultrahigh theoretical energy density and promising applications. However, with the …

Understanding and Applying Donor Number of Electrolytes in Lithium Metal Batteries

P Zhou, Y Xiang, K Liu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Donor number (DN) serves as a metric for describing the basicity of a solvent or anion and
delineates the tendency to donate electrons to electron acceptors. In this review, we make a …

Kinetically favorable Li–S battery electrolytes

Z Shi, Z Tian, D Guo, Y Wang, Z Bayhan… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries suffer from rampant polysulfide shuttling and sluggish
reaction kinetics, which have curtailed sulfur utilization and deteriorated their actual …

Regulation of anion–Na+ coordination chemistry in electrolyte solvates for low-temperature sodium-ion batteries

X Zhou, Y Huang, B Wen, Z Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
High-performance sodium storage at low temperature is urgent with the increasingly
stringent demand for energy storage systems. However, the aggravated capacity loss is …

Lithiating cathodes for Li-S batteries: Regulating Li2S electrodeposition to enhance sulfur utilization

S Yeom, H Jo, H Lee, JH Moon - Energy Storage Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The passivation of the cathode substrate by Li 2 S during discharge is particularly
pronounced in conditions such as high S content, crucial for practical Li-S batteries. Yet …

Dual functionalities of Rb cation in lean electrolyte lithium sulfur batteries

J Jung, H Cho, I Kim, S Kim, W Jo, HT Kim - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Achieving large discharge capacity and high cycling stability under high sulfur loading and
lean electrolyte condition is critical for practical lithium sulfur batteries. However, it is …

Alveoli‐Inspired Carbon Cathodes with Interconnected Porous Structure and Asymmetric Coordinated Vanadium Sites for Superior Li− S Batteries

R Yan, Z Zhao, R Zhu, M Wu, X Liu, M Adeli… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating sulfur conversion catalysis to alleviate the shuttle effect has become a novel
paradigm for effective Li− S batteries. Although nitrogen‐coordinated metal single‐atom (M …

Transitioning from Regular Electrolytes to Solvate Ionic Liquids to High-Concentration Electrolytes: Changes in Transport Properties and Ionic Speciation

EO Nachaki, DG Kuroda - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024 - ACS Publications
Glyme-based lithium-ion electrolytes have received considerable attention from the scientific
community due to their improved safety, as well as electrochemical and thermal stability over …

A bifunctional thiobenzamide additive for improvement of cathode kinetics and anode stability in lithium-sulfur batteries

J Rao, T Yu, Y Zhou, R Xiao, Y Wang, Z Qu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered as the key candidates for the next generation
of energy storage devices. However, the practical applications of LSBs are hindered by the …

Tailoring Cathode–Electrolyte Interface for High-Power and Stable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

M Liu, LJ Hu, ZK Guan, TL Chen, XY Zhang, S Sun… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2025 - Springer
Global interest in lithium–sulfur batteries as one of the most promising energy storage
technologies has been sparked by their low sulfur cathode cost, high gravimetric, volumetric …