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LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERIES

Supercool sulfur

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On two-dimensional layered materials, elemental sulfur can be controllably generated in a supercooled liquid state with enhanced electrochemical figures of merit compared to solid sulfur.

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Fig. 1: Different sulfur states generated from polysulfide electrochemical oxidation on 2D layered material substrates.

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Zhou, D., Wang, G. Supercool sulfur. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 167–168 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0625-5

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