Metal chalcogenide hollow polar bipyramid prisms as efficient sulfur hosts for Na-S batteries

Muhammad Kashif Aslam; Ieuan D. Seymour; Naman Katyal; Sha Li; Tingting Yang; Shu-juan Bao; Graeme Henkelman; Maowen Xu

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19078-0

Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Metal chalcogenide hollow polar bipyramid prisms as efficient sulfur hosts for Na-S batteries

Muhammad Kashif Aslam,
Ieuan D. Seymour,
Naman Katyal,
Sha Li,
Tingting Yang,
Shu-juan Bao,
Graeme Henkelman,
Maowen Xu

Affiliations

Muhammad Kashif Aslam: Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University
Ieuan D. Seymour: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin
Naman Katyal: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin
Sha Li: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
Tingting Yang: Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University
Shu-juan Bao: Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University
Graeme Henkelman: Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin
Maowen Xu: Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19078-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Sodium sulfur batteries require efficient sulfur hosts that can capture soluble polysulfides and enable fast reduction kinetics. Here, authors report hollow catalytic bipyramid prism CoS2/C as efficient sulfur carriers, and investigate the reaction mechanism in the sodium sulfur battery.

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ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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