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Liquid electrolyte lithium/sulfur battery: Fundamental chemistry, problems, and solutions
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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.About:
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.read more
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Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries.
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Lithium battery chemistries enabled by solid-state electrolytes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a background overview and discuss the state of the art, ion-transport mechanisms and fundamental properties of solid-state electrolyte materials of interest for energy storage applications.
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Designing high-energy lithium–sulfur batteries
TL;DR: This review aims to summarize major developments in the field of lithium-sulfur batteries, starting from an overview of their electrochemistry, technical challenges and potential solutions, along with some theoretical calculation results to advance the understanding of the material interactions involved.
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A facile soft-template synthesis of mesoporous polymeric and carbonaceous nanospheres
Jian Liu,Jian Liu,Tianyu Yang,Dawei Wang,Gao Qing Lu,Dongyuan Zhao,Shi-Zhang Qiao,Shi-Zhang Qiao +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a route for the controlled synthesis of mesoporous polymer nanospheres, which can be further converted into carbon nanosphere through carbonization, is presented.
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Core-shell structured sulfur-polypyrrole composite cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries
Yongzhu Fu,Arumugam Manthiram +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a sulfur-polypyrrole composite cathode with a core-shell structure consisting of spherical sulfur particles coated with polypyroxide has been developed, which facilitates fast electron transport enabling the material with superior electrochemical stability, rate capability and cyclability in lithium-sulfur batteries.
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Enhanced Cyclability for Sulfur Cathode Achieved by a Water-Soluble Binder
TL;DR: The electrochemical properties of sulfur cathodes based on commercially available sulfur powder (S) and water-soluble binder have been investigated in this paper, where the mixture of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) an...
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Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Ionic Liquids and the Formulation of a General ORR Mechanism for Li–Air Batteries
Chris J. Allen,Jaehee Hwang,Roger A. Kautz,Sanjeev Mukerjee,Edward J. Plichta,Mary A. Hendrickson,K. M. Abraham +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a strong correlation was found between ORR products and the ionic charge density, including those of ionic liquids, and the observed trend was explained in terms of the Lewis acidity of the cation present in the electrolyte using an acidity scale created from 13C NMR chemical shifts and spin-lattice relaxation (T1) times of 13C═O in solutions of these charged ions in propylene carbonate (PC).
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Improved Cyclability of Liquid Electrolyte Lithium/Sulfur Batteries by Optimizing Electrolyte/Sulfur Ratio
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of Li/S cells with a cathode containing 72% sulfur and 2 mg cm−2 sulfur loading was investigated. And the authors proposed an empirical method for determination of the optimized E/S ratio.
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Preparation and electrochemical properties of sulfur–acetylene black composites as cathode materials
TL;DR: In this paper, a sulfuracetylene black (AB) composite was synthesized by thermally treating a mixture of sublimed sulfur and AB, which can effectively confine the diffusion of dissolved polysulfides in organic electrolyte and stabilize the structure during charge and discharge process.