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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

Bidirectional Soft Catalysts for Improved Power Performance of Li-S Batteries.

Maleesha M Nishshanke, Petar Jovanovic, Swarit Dwivedi, Declan McNamara, Akshat Tanksale, Mahdokht Shaibani, Matthew Hill, Mainak Majumder

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Maleesha M NishshankeNanoscale Science and Engineering Laboratory (NSEL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-7196
Petar JovanovicNanoscale Science and Engineering Laboratory (NSEL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9091-5711
Swarit DwivediDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Declan McNamaraDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Akshat TanksaleDepartment of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7087-0912
Mahdokht ShaibaniNanoscale Science and Engineering Laboratory (NSEL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Matthew HillDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6362-1160
Mainak MajumderNanoscale Science and Engineering Laboratory (NSEL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0194-9387

Funding

Air Force Office of Scientific Research FA2386-23-1-4004Australian Research Council IH210100025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are attractive for next-generation energy storage owing to their high theoretical energy density and low cost, yet their practical performance is limited by sluggish redox kinetics. Here, we introduce a soft catalyst in which a polymer-metal complex is directly integrated into the binder, creating a catalytically active microenvironment that enables efficient and bidirectional sulfur catalysis. A polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) scaffold stabilizes metal ions through chelation with the electron-donating -OH groups of PVA, forming homogeneously distributed catalytic domains in the sulfur cathode. Among the systems investigated, PVA-Cu exhibits the highest catalytic activity, arising from optimal sulfur binding energies, Cu-S d-p hybridization, and additional electronic states near the Fermi level. As a result, the PVA-Cu cells deliver high capacities at 3 mg cm

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high‐power pouch‐cellslithium‐sulfur batterymetal catalystsmicroenvironment engineeringpolymer‐metal complexes

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