Phosphorene as a Polysulfide Immobilizer and Catalyst in High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Lu Li; Long Chen; Sankha Mukherjee; Jian Gao; Hao Sun; Zhibo Liu; Xiuliang Ma; Tushar Gupta; Chandra Veer Singh; Wencai Ren; Hui-Ming Cheng; Nikhil Koratkar

doi:10.1002/adma.201602734

Phosphorene as a Polysulfide Immobilizer and Catalyst in High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Adv Mater. 2017 Jan;29(2). doi: 10.1002/adma.201602734. Epub 2016 Oct 31.

Authors

Lu Li¹, Long Chen², Sankha Mukherjee³, Jian Gao⁴, Hao Sun⁵, Zhibo Liu², Xiuliang Ma², Tushar Gupta¹, Chandra Veer Singh^{3

5}, Wencai Ren², Hui-Ming Cheng², Nikhil Koratkar^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
² Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, 110016, P. R. China.
³ Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canada.
⁴ Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
⁵ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E4, Canada.

PMID: 27797133
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602734

Abstract

Theoretical and experimental studies together show phosphorene as a highly potent polysulfide immobilizer for lithium-sulfur batteries, enabling a high capacity, good rate capability, and excellent cycling stability.

Keywords: catalysts; electrochemical energy storage; lithium-sulfur batteries; phosphorene; polysulfide immobilizers.