Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage

Yang Jin; Guangmin Zhou; Feifei Shi; Denys Zhuo; Jie Zhao; Kai Liu; Yayuan Liu; Chenxi Zu; Wei Chen; Rufan Zhang; Xuanyi Huang; Yi Cui

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00537-0

Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage

Yang Jin,
Guangmin Zhou,
Feifei Shi,
Denys Zhuo,
Jie Zhao,
Kai Liu,
Yayuan Liu,
Chenxi Zu,
Wei Chen,
Rufan Zhang,
Xuanyi Huang,
Yi Cui

Affiliations

Yang Jin: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Guangmin Zhou: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Feifei Shi: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Denys Zhuo: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Jie Zhao: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Kai Liu: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Yayuan Liu: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Chenxi Zu: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Wei Chen: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Rufan Zhang: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Xuanyi Huang: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Yi Cui: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00537-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Lithium polysulfide batteries suffer from the precipitation of insoluble and irreversible sulfide species on the surface of carbon and lithium. Here the authors show a reactivation strategy by a reaction with cheap sulfur powder under stirring and heating to recover the cell capacity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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