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Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

Room‐temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries are arousing great interest in recent years. Their practical applications, however, are hindered by several intrinsic problems, such as the sluggish kinetic, shuttle effect, and the incomplete conversion of sodium polysulfides (NaPSs). Here a sulfur...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yuping, Ma, Shuangying, Rosebrock, Marina, Rusch, Pascal, Barnscheidt, Yvo, Wu, Chuanqiang, Nan, Pengfei, Bettels, Frederik, Lin, Zhihua, Li, Taoran, Ge, Binghui, Bigall, Nadja C., Pfnür, Herbert, Ding, Fei, Zhang, Chaofeng, Zhang, Lin
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35132807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105544
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author Liu, Yuping
Ma, Shuangying
Rosebrock, Marina
Rusch, Pascal
Barnscheidt, Yvo
Wu, Chuanqiang
Nan, Pengfei
Bettels, Frederik
Lin, Zhihua
Li, Taoran
Ge, Binghui
Bigall, Nadja C.
Pfnür, Herbert
Ding, Fei
Zhang, Chaofeng
Zhang, Lin
author_facet Liu, Yuping
Ma, Shuangying
Rosebrock, Marina
Rusch, Pascal
Barnscheidt, Yvo
Wu, Chuanqiang
Nan, Pengfei
Bettels, Frederik
Lin, Zhihua
Li, Taoran
Ge, Binghui
Bigall, Nadja C.
Pfnür, Herbert
Ding, Fei
Zhang, Chaofeng
Zhang, Lin
author_sort Liu, Yuping
collection PubMed
description Room‐temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries are arousing great interest in recent years. Their practical applications, however, are hindered by several intrinsic problems, such as the sluggish kinetic, shuttle effect, and the incomplete conversion of sodium polysulfides (NaPSs). Here a sulfur host material that is based on tungsten nanoparticles embedded in nitrogen‐doped graphene is reported. The incorporation of tungsten nanoparticles significantly accelerates the polysulfides conversion (especially the reduction of Na(2)S(4) to Na(2)S, which contributes to 75% of the full capacity) and completely suppresses the shuttle effect, en route to a fully reversible reaction of NaPSs. With a host weight ratio of only 9.1% (about 3–6 times lower than that in recent reports), the cathode shows unprecedented electrochemical performances even at high sulfur mass loadings. The experimental findings, which are corroborated by the first‐principles calculations, highlight the so far unexplored role of tungsten nanoparticles in sulfur hosts, thus pointing to a viable route toward stable Na–S batteries at room temperatures.
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spelling pubmed-90087872022-04-15 Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries Liu, Yuping Ma, Shuangying Rosebrock, Marina Rusch, Pascal Barnscheidt, Yvo Wu, Chuanqiang Nan, Pengfei Bettels, Frederik Lin, Zhihua Li, Taoran Ge, Binghui Bigall, Nadja C. Pfnür, Herbert Ding, Fei Zhang, Chaofeng Zhang, Lin Adv Sci (Weinh) Research Articles Room‐temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries are arousing great interest in recent years. Their practical applications, however, are hindered by several intrinsic problems, such as the sluggish kinetic, shuttle effect, and the incomplete conversion of sodium polysulfides (NaPSs). Here a sulfur host material that is based on tungsten nanoparticles embedded in nitrogen‐doped graphene is reported. The incorporation of tungsten nanoparticles significantly accelerates the polysulfides conversion (especially the reduction of Na(2)S(4) to Na(2)S, which contributes to 75% of the full capacity) and completely suppresses the shuttle effect, en route to a fully reversible reaction of NaPSs. With a host weight ratio of only 9.1% (about 3–6 times lower than that in recent reports), the cathode shows unprecedented electrochemical performances even at high sulfur mass loadings. The experimental findings, which are corroborated by the first‐principles calculations, highlight the so far unexplored role of tungsten nanoparticles in sulfur hosts, thus pointing to a viable route toward stable Na–S batteries at room temperatures. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9008787/ /pubmed/35132807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105544 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Articles
Liu, Yuping
Ma, Shuangying
Rosebrock, Marina
Rusch, Pascal
Barnscheidt, Yvo
Wu, Chuanqiang
Nan, Pengfei
Bettels, Frederik
Lin, Zhihua
Li, Taoran
Ge, Binghui
Bigall, Nadja C.
Pfnür, Herbert
Ding, Fei
Zhang, Chaofeng
Zhang, Lin
Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
title Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
title_full Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
title_fullStr Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
title_full_unstemmed Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
title_short Tungsten Nanoparticles Accelerate Polysulfides Conversion: A Viable Route toward Stable Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries
title_sort tungsten nanoparticles accelerate polysulfides conversion: a viable route toward stable room‐temperature sodium–sulfur batteries
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35132807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202105544
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