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Lee J, Zhao C, Wang C, Chen A, Sun X, Amine K, Xu GL. Bridging the gap between academic research and industrial development in advanced all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. Chem Soc Rev 2024; 53:5264-5290. [PMID: 38619389 DOI: 10.1039/d3cs00439b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
Abstract
The energy storage and vehicle industries are heavily investing in advancing all-solid-state batteries to overcome critical limitations in existing liquid electrolyte-based lithium-ion batteries, specifically focusing on mitigating fire hazards and improving energy density. All-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries (ASSLSBs), featuring earth-abundant sulfur cathodes, high-capacity metallic lithium anodes, and non-flammable solid electrolytes, hold significant promise. Despite these appealing advantages, persistent challenges like sluggish sulfur redox kinetics, lithium metal failure, solid electrolyte degradation, and manufacturing complexities hinder their practical use. To facilitate the transition of these technologies to an industrial scale, bridging the gap between fundamental scientific research and applied R&D activities is crucial. Our review will address the inherent challenges in cell chemistries within ASSLSBs, explore advanced characterization techniques, and delve into innovative cell structure designs. Furthermore, we will provide an overview of the recent trends in R&D and investment activities from both academia and industry. Building on the fundamental understandings and significant progress that has been made thus far, our objective is to motivate the battery community to advance ASSLSBs in a practical direction and propel the industrialized process.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jieun Lee
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
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- Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315200, P. R. China
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- Laurel Heights Secondary School, 650 Laurelwood Dr, Waterloo, ON, N2V 2V1, Canada
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- Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315200, P. R. China
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
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Lu BY, Chen ZP, Wang HR, Li JY, Qi QY, Cui FZ, Jiang GF, Zhao X. Surface Engineering in Covalent Organic Polymers for High-Performance Li-S Batteries. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202301121. [PMID: 37300353 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202301121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a promising energy storage technology due to their tempting high theoretical capacity and energy density. Nevertheless, the wastage of active materials that originates from the shuttling effect of polysulfides still hinders advancement of Li-S batteries. The effective design of cathode materials is extremely pivotal to solve this thorny problem. Herein, surface engineering in covalent organic polymers (COPs) has been performed to investigate the influence of pore wall polarity on the performance of COP-based cathodes used for Li-S batteries. With the assistance of experimental investigation and theoretical calculations, performance improvement by increasing pore surface polarity and a synergy effect of the polarized functionalities, along with nano-confinement effect of the COPs, are disclosed, to which the improved performance of Li-S batteries including outstanding Coulombic efficiency (99.0 %) and extremely low capacity decay (0.08 % over 425 cycles at 1.0 C) is attributed. This work not only enlightens the designable synthesis and applications of covalent polymers as polar sulfur hosts with high utilization of active materials, but also provides a feasible guide for the design of effective cathode materials for future advanced Li-S batteries.
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- Bing-Yi Lu
- Advanced Catalytic Engineer Research Center of the Ministry of Education College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Self-Assembly Chemistry for Organic Functional Molecules Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Advanced Catalytic Engineer Research Center of the Ministry of Education College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410128, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410128, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Self-Assembly Chemistry for Organic Functional Molecules Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Advanced Catalytic Engineer Research Center of the Ministry of Education College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- Advanced Catalytic Engineer Research Center of the Ministry of Education College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Self-Assembly Chemistry for Organic Functional Molecules Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Chen Z, Liang S, Yang C, Li H, Zhang L. Proton-Induced Defect-Rich Vanadium Oxides as Reversible Polysulfide Conversion Sites for High-Performance Lithium Sulfur Batteries. Chemistry 2023; 29:e202203043. [PMID: 36372910 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have attracted attention due to their high theoretical energy density, natural abundance, and low cost. However, the diffusion of polysulfides decreases the utilization and further degrades the battery's life. We have successfully fabricated a defect-rich layered sodium vanadium oxide with proton doping (HNVO) nanobelt and used it as the functional interface layer on the separator in Li-S batteries. Benefiting from the abundant defects of NVO and the catalytic activity of metal vanadium in the electrochemical process, the shuttle of polysulfides was greatly decreased by reversible chemical adsorption. Moreover, the extra graphene layer contributes to accelerating the charge carrier at high current densities. Therefore, a Li-S battery with G@HNVO delivers a high capacity of 1494.8 mAh g-1 at 0.2 C and a superior cycling stability over 700 cycles at 1 C. This work provides an effective strategy for designing the electrode/separator interface layer to achieve high-performance Li-S batteries.
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- Zihan Chen
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, P. R. China
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Sengwa RJ, Patel VK, Saraswat M. Investigation on promising properties of PEO/PVP/LiTFSI solid polymer electrolytes for high-performance energy storage and next-generation flexible optoelectronic and iontronic devices. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-022-03326-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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