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Liquid electrolyte lithium/sulfur battery: Fundamental chemistry, problems, and solutions

Sheng S. Zhang
- 01 Jun 2013 - 
- Vol. 231, Iss: 231, pp 153-162
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Li et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the problems and solutions of liquid electrolyte Li/S battery and showed that the dissolution of lithium polysulfide (PS) is essential for the performance of a Li-S cell.
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This article is published in Journal of Power Sources.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 1348 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lithium–sulfur battery & Electrolyte.

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Kilogram scale inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur to prepare high capacity polymer electrodes for Li‐S batteries

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Improved performance of lithium–sulfur battery with fluorinated electrolyte

TL;DR: In this paper, an organo-fluorine compound, 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl (2, 2,3,3-TTE), was investigated for the first time as the electrolyte solvent in the lithium-sulfur battery.
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An aqueous dissolved polysulfide cathode for lithium–sulfur batteries

TL;DR: In this article, an aqueous lithium polysulfide battery with reversible specific capacity of up to 1030 mA h g−1 was presented, with a discharge potential of 2.53 V versus Li+/Li.
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Polysulfide shuttle control: Towards a lithium-sulfur battery with superior capacity performance up to 1000 cycles by matching the sulfur/electrolyte loading

TL;DR: In this article, the polysulfide shuttle was tuned by the loading of sulfur and electrolyte in a Li-S cell, which provides new insights to the energy chemistry of Li/S batteries, and also important principle to assemble a LiS cell with recommend loading for their commercialization application in portable mobile devices and electric vehicles.
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