Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Chemisorption of polysulfides through redox reactions with organic molecules for lithium–sulfur batteries

  • Ge Li,
  • Xiaolei Wang,
  • Min Ho Seo,
  • Matthew Li,
  • Lu Ma,
  • Yifei Yuan,
  • Tianpin Wu,
  • Aiping Yu,
  • Shun Wang,
  • Jun Lu,
  • Zhongwei Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03116-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Novel cathode design holds the key to enabling high performance lithium-sulfur batteries. Here the authors utilize anthraquinone to chemically stabilize polysulfides, revealing that the keto groups of anthraquinone play a critical role in forming strong Lewis acid-based chemical bonding.