High performance sodium-sulfur batteries at low temperature enabled by superior molten Na wettability

Journal Article
Chemical Communications, vol. 57, iss. 1, pp. 45-48, 2021
Authors
Minyuan M. Li, Xiaochuan Lu, Xiaowen Zhan, Mark H. Engelhard, Jeffrey F. Bonnett, Evgueni Polikarpov, Keeyoung Jung, David M. Reed, Vincent L. Sprenkle, Guosheng Li
Abstract

Raising the surface treatment temperature, ceramic solid-state electrolyte β′′-Al2O3 decorated with now highly metallic lead microspheres improves surface wetting of molten sodium and thus the performance of sodium-sulfur batteries.

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