Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Organosulfide-plasticized solid-electrolyte interphase layer enables stable lithium metal anodes for long-cycle lithium-sulfur batteries

  • Guoxing Li,
  • Yue Gao,
  • Xin He,
  • Qingquan Huang,
  • Shuru Chen,
  • Seong H. Kim,
  • Donghai Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00974-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The practical application of lithium metal anodes suffers from the poor Coulombic efficiency and growth of lithium dendrites. Here, the authors report an approach to enable the self-formation of stable and flexible solid-electrolyte interphase layers which serve to address both issues.