Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes, Polysulfide Conversion and Host Materials
This community develops the electrode materials, electrolytes, and catalytic interfaces required to make lithium-sulfur batteries functional, focusing on stabilizing the sulfur cathode and managing the chemical conversion of polysulfides.
The work centers on designing sulfur hosts that physically confine and chemically interact with reactive sulfur species. Recurring materials include porous carbon structures, graphene derivatives, carbon nanotubes, and metal-organic frameworks. A significant portion of the research addresses the "shuttle effect," where soluble polysulfides migrate and degrade battery life, using strategies such as catalytic conversion layers, covalent organic frameworks, and modified separators. The titles consistently pair these structural materials with kinetic optimization, aiming to accelerate the redox reactions that occur during charging and discharging.
The largest share of this community's output is found in sulfur research, accounting for 25.1% of all tracked sulfur literature, with 8,056 papers. Lithium research contributes the second-largest share at 8.3%, comprising 2,811 papers.
The community comprises 9,700 papers, published most frequently in Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and Journal of Power Sources.
Recent work continues to refine the interplay between polysulfide adsorption and conversion, with new studies exploring dual-defect engineering in metal chalcogenides, bidirectional lithium-sulfur deposition strategies, and the suppression of polysulfide shuttling using azo-bridged metal-organic frameworks.
Papers behind this description
- Formulating energy density for designing practical lithium–sulfur batteries — Nature Energy, 2022 — doi:10.1038/s41560-022-01001-0
- Lithiated metallic molybdenum disulfide nanosheets for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries — Nature Energy, 2023 — doi:10.1038/s41560-022-01175-7
- Li-S Batteries: Challenges, Achievements and Opportunities — Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2023 — doi:10.1007/s41918-023-00188-4
- Machine-learning-assisted design of a binary descriptor to decipher electronic and structural effects on sulfur reduction kinetics — Nature Catalysis, 2023 — doi:10.1038/s41929-023-01041-z
- Rechargeable Metal-Sulfur Batteries: Key Materials to Mechanisms — Chemical Reviews, 2024 — doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00919
- Healable and conductive sulfur iodide for solid-state Li–S batteries — Nature, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07101-z
- Interface engineering toward stable lithium–sulfur batteries — Energy & Environmental Science, 2024 — doi:10.1039/d3ee04183b
- Engineering d‐p Orbital Hybridization with P, S Co‐Coordination Asymmetric Configuration of Single Atoms Toward High‐Rate and Long‐Cycling Lithium–Sulfur Battery — Advanced Materials, 2024 — doi:10.1002/adma.202407070
- Synergistic Effect of Bimetallic MOF Modified Separator for Long Cycle Life Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries — Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 — doi:10.1002/aenm.202302897
- Fe3O4-doped mesoporous carbon cathode with a plumber’s nightmare structure for high-performance Li-S batteries — Nature Communications, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41467-024-49826-5
- Cation-doped ZnS catalysts for polysulfide conversion in lithium–sulfur batteries — Nature Catalysis, 2022 — doi:10.1038/s41929-022-00804-4
- Heterostructures Regulating Lithium Polysulfides for Advanced Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries — Advanced Materials, 2023 — doi:10.1002/adma.202303520
- Orbital‐Tailoring Strategy via Dual‐Defect Engineering in P‐FeTe 2‐x @NC Synergizes Polysulfide Adsorption‐Conversion for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries — Advanced Materials, 2025 — doi:10.1002/adma.202511910
- Enhancing Bidirectional Lithium–Sulfur Battery Performance Through Synergistic‐Induced 3D Li 2 S Deposition — Advanced Energy Materials, 2025 — doi:10.1002/aenm.202504046
- High-dimensional strain unlocks fast polysulfide redox kinetics for lithium-sulfur batteries — Nature Communications, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41467-025-63969-z
- Galvanic Corrosion of Lithium Metal Anodes in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries — Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 — doi:10.1021/jacs.5c09705
- Electrode/Electrolyte Interface Studies of Rechargeable Li Batteries with Interface-Specific Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy — Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 — doi:10.1021/jacs.5c17560
- Sulfur-Bridged Dual Fe–N 4 Sites to Boost Lithium–Sulfur Battery Performance — Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025 — doi:10.1021/jacs.5c14250