Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage

F Liu, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the global trend towards carbon neutrality, sustainable energy conversion and storage
technologies are of vital significance to tackle the energy crisis and climate change …

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 …

Lithiated metallic molybdenum disulfide nanosheets for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries

Z Li, I Sami, J Yang, J Li, RV Kumar, M Chhowalla - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Batteries based on redox chemistries that can store more energy than state-of-the-art lithium-
ion systems will play an important role in enabling the energy transition to net zero carbon …

Machine-learning-assisted design of a binary descriptor to decipher electronic and structural effects on sulfur reduction kinetics

Z Han, R Gao, T Wang, S Tao, Y Jia, Z Lao, M Zhang… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
The catalytic conversion of lithium polysulfides is a promising way to inhibit the shuttling
effect in Li–S batteries. However, the mechanism of such catalytic systems remains unclear …

Recent progress for concurrent realization of shuttle‐inhibition and dendrite‐free lithium–sulfur batteries

W Yao, J Xu, L Ma, X Lu, D Luo, J Qian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have become one of the most promising new‐
generation energy storage systems owing to their ultrahigh energy density (2600 Wh kg− 1) …

Cation-doped ZnS catalysts for polysulfide conversion in lithium–sulfur batteries

Z Shen, X **, J Tian, M Li, Y Yuan, S Zhang, S Fang… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Catalytic conversion of polysulfides is regarded as a crucial approach to enhancing kinetics
and suppressing the shuttle effect in lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. However, the activity …

Formulating energy density for designing practical lithium–sulfur batteries

G Zhou, H Chen, Y Cui - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
The lithium–sulfur (Li–S) battery is one of the most promising battery systems due to its high
theoretical energy density and low cost. Despite impressive progress in its development …

Intercalation in 2D materials and in situ studies

R Yang, L Mei, Z Lin, Y Fan, J Lim, J Guo… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Intercalation of atoms, ions and molecules is a powerful tool for altering or tuning the
properties—interlayer interactions, in-plane bonding configurations, Fermi-level energies …

Nanostructuring versus microstructuring in battery electrodes

R Jain, AS Lakhnot, K Bhimani, S Sharma… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Battery electrodes comprise a mixture of active material particles, conductive carbon and
binder additives deposited onto a current collector. Although this basic design has persisted …

Nanoreactors encapsulating built‐in electric field as a “Bridge” for Li–S batteries: directional migration and rapid conversion of polysulfides

J Li, Z Wang, K Shi, Y Wu, W Huang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium–sulfur batteries (Li–S) are recognized as the next generation of secondary batteries
due to their satisfactory theoretical specific capacity and energy density. However, a series …