High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications
The emergence of various electronic devices and equipment such as electric vehicles and drones requires higher energy density energy storage devices. Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered the most promising new-generation energy storage system owing to its high theoretical specific capacity...
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| description | The emergence of various electronic devices and equipment such as electric vehicles and drones requires higher energy density energy storage devices. Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered the most promising new-generation energy storage system owing to its high theoretical specific capacity and energy density. However, the severe shuttle behaviors of soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) and the slow redox kinetics lead to low sulfur utilization and poor cycling stability, which seriously hinder the commercial application of LSBs. Therefore, various catalytic materials have been employed to solve these troublesome problems. High entropy materials (HEMs), as advanced materials, can provide unique surface and electronic structures that expose plentiful catalytic active sites, which opens new ideas for the regulation of LiPS redox kinetics. Notwithstanding the many instructive reviews on LSBs, this work aims to offer a complete and shrewd summary of the current progress in HEM-based LSBs, including an in-depth interpretation of the design principles and mechanistic electrocatalysis functions, as well as pragmatic perspectives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1cdd0ed6f6114ef6885e16aaf73fc8b82023-11-18T02:26:29ZengMDPI AGMetals2075-47012023-04-0113583310.3390/met13050833High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery ApplicationsYikun Yao0Jiajun Chen1Rong Niu2Zhenxin Zhao3Xiaomin Wang4College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, ChinaThe emergence of various electronic devices and equipment such as electric vehicles and drones requires higher energy density energy storage devices. Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered the most promising new-generation energy storage system owing to its high theoretical specific capacity and energy density. However, the severe shuttle behaviors of soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) and the slow redox kinetics lead to low sulfur utilization and poor cycling stability, which seriously hinder the commercial application of LSBs. Therefore, various catalytic materials have been employed to solve these troublesome problems. High entropy materials (HEMs), as advanced materials, can provide unique surface and electronic structures that expose plentiful catalytic active sites, which opens new ideas for the regulation of LiPS redox kinetics. Notwithstanding the many instructive reviews on LSBs, this work aims to offer a complete and shrewd summary of the current progress in HEM-based LSBs, including an in-depth interpretation of the design principles and mechanistic electrocatalysis functions, as well as pragmatic perspectives.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/13/5/833lithium–sulfur batteriescatalysishigh-entropy materialsactive sites |
| spellingShingle | Yikun Yao Jiajun Chen Rong Niu Zhenxin Zhao Xiaomin Wang High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications Metals lithium–sulfur batteries catalysis high-entropy materials active sites |
| title | High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications |
| title_full | High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications |
| title_fullStr | High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications |
| title_short | High-Entropy Materials: Features for Lithium–Sulfur Battery Applications |
| title_sort | high entropy materials features for lithium sulfur battery applications |
| topic | lithium–sulfur batteries catalysis high-entropy materials active sites |
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