Rechargeable metal-sulfur batteries: Key materials to mechanisms

W Yao, K Liao, T Lai, H Sul, A Manthiram - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rechargeable metal-sulfur batteries are considered promising candidates for energy
storage due to their high energy density along with high natural abundance and low cost of …

In situ reconstruction of electrocatalysts for lithium–sulfur batteries: progress and prospects

P Zeng, B Su, X Wang, X Li, C Yuan… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The current research of Li–S batteries primarily focuses on increasing the catalytic activity of
electrocatalysts to inhibit the polysulfide shuttling and enhance the redox kinetics. However …

Hierarchical Porous N‐doped Carbon Encapsulated Fluorine‐free MXene with Tunable Coordination Chemistry by One‐pot Etching Strategy for Lithium–Sulfur …

X Zhang, Z Ni, X Bai, H Shen, Z Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous and considerable exploration of two–dimensional transition metal carbides and
nitrides (MXenes) toward interlayer spacing expansion, surface termination modification and …

Accelerated Multi‐step Sulfur Redox Reactions in Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries Enabled by Dual Defects in Metal‐Organic Framework‐based Catalysts

X Wang, X Zhang, Y Zhao, D Luo, L Shui… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The sluggish sulfur redox kinetics and shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) are
recognized as the main obstacles to the practical applications of the lithium‐sulfur (Li− S) …

Promoting “Strong Adsorption” and “Fast Conversion” of Polysulfides in Li‐S batteries Based on Conductive Sulfides Host with Hollow Prism Structure and Surface …

P Zeng, X Zhou, J Peng, X Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The chemical binding between metal compounds and polysulfides provides a good solution
to inhibit shuttle effect in Li‐S batteries. However, the Sabatier principle predicts that overly …

Balancing adsorption, catalysis, and desorption in cathode catalyst for Li–S batteries

W Zhang, H Pan, N Han, S Feng… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The complicated electrochemical catalytic conversion process of polysulfides in metal–sulfur
batteries involves three steps: adsorption, catalysis, and desorption process. Even as huge …

Atom-dominated relay catalysis of high-entropy MXene promotes cascade polysulfide conversion for lithium–sulfur batteries

M Xu, Q Zhu, Y Li, Y Gao, N Sun, B Xu - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
To address the challenges in Li–S batteries, ie the shuttle effect and lithium dendrite
formation, a high-entropy MXene (HE-MXene) of TiVNbMoC3 with four size-compatible …

Unveiling the Role of Electric Double‐Layer in Sulfur Catalysis for Batteries

C Geng, X Jiang, S Hong, L Wang, Y Zhao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The metal‐catalyzed sulfur reaction in lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries usually suffers from the
strong binding of sulfur species to the catalyst surface, which destroys the electric double …

Synthesis of the Ni2P–Co Mott–Schottky Junction as an Electrocatalyst to Boost Sulfur Conversion Kinetics and Application in Separator Modification in Li-S Batteries

Q Zhang, X Zhang, S Qiao, D Lei, Q Wang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
To overcome the shuttling effect and sluggish conversion kinetics of polysulfides, a large
number of catalysts have been designed for lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. Herein, a Mott …

High‐Entropy Metal Nitride Embedded in Concave Porous Carbon Enabling Polysulfide Conversion in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

R Wang, J Jiao, D Liu, Y He, Y Yang, D Sun, H Pan… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The practical implementation of lithium–sulfur batteries is severely hindered by the rapid
capacity fading due to the solubility of the intermediate lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) and the …