Harnessing Steric Separation of Freshly Nucleated Li2S Nanoparticles for Bottom‐Up Assembly of High‐Performance Cathodes for Lithium‐Sulfur and Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Recently, researchers have started to pay more attention to sulfur (S)-based cathode chemistry because of the higher theoretical energy density and specifi c energy of S in combination with S being signifi cantly cheaper, environmentally friendlier and safer than commercial cathodes currently used in Li-ion batteries (such as lithium iron phosphate (LFP), LCO, NCA, NCM, and others). The most common active material explored in S-based cathodes is elemental sulfur (S), which shows several advantages including high theoretical gravimetric capacity of 1672 mAhg −1 , high theoretical volumetric capacity of 1935 Ahcc −1 (in an expanded/lithiated state), abundance in nature and environmentally benign nature. [ 1,3 ]

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