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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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A Review of Solid-State Lithium–Sulfur Battery: Ion Transport and Polysulfide Chemistry

TL;DR: The lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery has long been a research hotspot due to its high theoretical specific capacity, low cost, and nontoxicity as mentioned in this paper.
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S@TiO2 nanospheres loaded on PPy matrix for enhanced lithium-sulfur batteries

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel cathode consisting of a sulfur@TiO2/polypyrrole composite, in which sulfur is encapsulated by TiO2 hollow spheres and then loaded on a PPy nanowire matrix together, is presented.
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Constraining polyselenide formation in ether based electrolytes through confinement of Se in microporous carbon matrix for Li-Se batteries

TL;DR: In this paper, Nitrogen doped carbon tubes (N-CT) of dia 100nm are prepared by carbonization of polyaniline tubes and selenium impregnation into N-CT is carried out by melt diffusion process.
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Cerium oxide embedded bilayer separator enabling fast polysulfide conversion for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

TL;DR: In this paper, a functional bilayer separator based on 0D (nanocrystals)/1D composite mats is proposed to accelerate the reduction of polysulfides in Li-S batteries.
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