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ArticleEnergy storage materials2025

Mechanistic understanding of a bifunctional carbonate additive for enhanced performance in lithium-sulfur battery.

Huidong Dai, Colin Gallagher, Seong-Min Bak, Luisa Gomes, Kevin Yang, Ruizhi Dong, Srinidi Badhrinathan, Qing Zhao, Yonghua Du, Gaind P Pandey and 1 more

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Article in Energy storage materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Huidong DaiDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7328-4786
Colin GallagherDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.
Seong-Min BakDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul, 120-749, South Korea.
Luisa GomesDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.
Kevin YangDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.
Ruizhi DongDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.
Srinidi BadhrinathanGiner Inc., 89 Rumford Avenue, Newton, Massachusetts, 02466, United States.
Qing ZhaoDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.
Yonghua DuNational Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973, United States.
Gaind P PandeyGiner Inc., 89 Rumford Avenue, Newton, Massachusetts, 02466, United States.
Sanjeev MukerjeeDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, United States.

Funding

600MHz NMR SpectrometerS10OD032452 · OD · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI GUO, JASON JIANXIN · 2022 to 2022
$1.6M
NIH HHS S10 OD032452
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries stand promising for next-generation energy storage systems due to their high specific capacity and cost-effectiveness. However, their commercialization is hindered by sluggish sulfur reduction reaction (SRR) kinetics and polysulfide migration. To address these challenges, we introduce bis(4-nitrophenyl) carbonate (BNC) as a bifunctional electrolyte additive. At an optimal concentration, BNC leverages its polar nature to anchor soluble polysulfides while simultaneously modifying the Li

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Carbonate additivesLithium-sulfur batteriesOperando spectroscopySolvation structureSulfur reduction reaction

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PMID42125016
PMCPMC13160265

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