Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

On the nanoscale structural evolution of solid discharge products in lithium-sulfur batteries using operando scattering

  • Christian Prehal,
  • Jean-Marc von Mentlen,
  • Sara Drvarič Talian,
  • Alen Vizintin,
  • Robert Dominko,
  • Heinz Amenitsch,
  • Lionel Porcar,
  • Stefan A. Freunberger,
  • Vanessa Wood

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33931-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Understanding lithium sulfide’s electrodeposition and stripping is key to developing practical Li-S batteries. Here, the authors demonstrate that the discharge product in Li-S batteries consists of nano-size solid polysulfide particles and nano-crystalline lithium sulfide.