Nature Communications (May 2021)

Amorphization-induced surface electronic states modulation of cobaltous oxide nanosheets for lithium-sulfur batteries

  • Ruilong Li,
  • Dewei Rao,
  • Jianbin Zhou,
  • Geng Wu,
  • Guanzhong Wang,
  • Zixuan Zhu,
  • Xiao Han,
  • Rongbo Sun,
  • Hai Li,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Wensheng Yan,
  • Xusheng Zheng,
  • Peixin Cui,
  • Yuen Wu,
  • Gongming Wang,
  • Xun Hong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23349-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Regulating the adsorption behaviour of the polysulfide species is the key to achieving highly stable Li-S batteries. Here, the authors show that amorphization-induced redistribution of d orbitals enable CoO to be a favourable candidate for polysulfide adsorption and conversion.