Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Conductive porous vanadium nitride/graphene composite as chemical anchor of polysulfides for lithium-sulfur batteries

  • Zhenhua Sun,
  • Jingqi Zhang,
  • Lichang Yin,
  • Guangjian Hu,
  • Ruopian Fang,
  • Hui-Ming Cheng,
  • Feng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14627
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Lithium sulfur batteries are a promising next generation storage technology. Their performance, however, is subject to the parasitic shuttle effect. Here the authors report a cathode material comprising porous vanadium nitride nanoribbon and graphene to provide anchoring for polysulfides.