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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2026

Vanadium Nitride Quantum-Dot Bidirectional Catalysis for Accelerated Polysulfide Redox in Room-Temperature Na-S Batteries.

Hun-Seong Kim, Junsu Son, Jaewon Lee, Hee-Jun Kim, Seongwon Lee, Debasis Ghosh, Tae Kyung Lee, Hyun Young Jung

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Hun-Seong KimDepartment of Energy System Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, South Korea.
Junsu SonDepartment of Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, South Korea.
Jaewon LeeDepartment of Energy System Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, South Korea.
Hee-Jun KimDepartment of Energy System Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, South Korea.
Seongwon LeeDepartment of Materials Engineering and Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, South Korea.
Debasis GhoshCentre For Nano and Material Sciences, Jain Global Campus, Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2167-3656
Tae Kyung LeeDepartment of Organic and Nano Engineering, Human-Tech Convergence Program, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Hyun Young JungDepartment of Energy System Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Gyeongnam, South Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2264-9762

Funding

Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2024-00352398Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2025-25418010Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2025-25437964National Research Foundation of Korea
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Abstract

The formation of soluble polysulfide intermediates is crucial for the multistep redox reactions of sulfur-based batteries; however, their irreversibility and uncontrollable shuttling through the electrolyte lead to suboptimal capacity, self-discharge, and rapid capacity fading. Here, we report a vanadium nitride quantum dot-graphene (VNQ-G) composite bidirectional catalyst that accelerates the reversible conversion of polysulfides during both discharging and charging for room-temperature sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries. The VNQ-G composite with a quantum-confined VNQ catalyst and a conductive graphene scaffold enables strong d-p hybridization with sodium polysulfide, accelerating redox kinetics and ensuring effective polysulfide trapping and utilization during discharge, and accelerating Na

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bidirectional catalystpolysulfide redoxquantum‐dotsodium–sulfur batteriesvanadium nitride

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