TY - JOUR

T1 - Recent Advances in Transition-Metal-Based Catalytic Material for Room-Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

AU - Bettels, Frederik

AU - Lin, Zhihua

AU - Li, Zhenhu

AU - Shao, Yaxin

AU - Ding, Fei

AU - Liu, Shuangyi

AU - Zhang, Lin

AU - Liu, Yuping

N1 - Funding Information: Y.L., F.B., and Z.H.L. contributed equally to this work. L.Z. conceived the project. This work was financially supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK), via the Research Training Group “CircularLIB” and the program “Nanomaterials and Quantum Technology for Digital Transformation” (hsn‐digital). Y. L. thanks the research support from the CAS “Hundred Talents Program B,” and Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology (No. E2906216). Z.H.L. acknowledges the support from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).

PY - 2024/1/29

Y1 - 2024/1/29

N2 - Room-temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries have emerged as a promising candidate for next-generation scalable energy storage systems, due to their high theoretical energy density, low cost, and natural abundance. However, the practical applications of these batteries are hindered by the notorious shuttle effect of soluble sodium polysulfides (NaPSs) and sluggish reaction kinetics, which result in fast performance loss. To address this issue, recent studies have reported impressive achievements of transition metal nanoparticles/single atoms/cluster/compounds (TM)-based host materials with strong adsorption and catalyzation to NaPSs. These materials can significantly improve the electrochemical performance of RT Na–S batteries. In this review, the recent progress on TM-based host materials for RT Na–S batteries, including iron (Fe)-, cobalt (Co)-, nickel (Ni)-, molybdenum (Mo)-, titanium (Ti)-, vanadium (V)-, manganese (Mn)-, and other TM-based materials are summarized. The design, fabrication, and properties of these host materials are comprehensively summarized and systematically analyzed the underlying chemical inhibition and electrocatalysis mechanism between NaPSs and TM-based catalytic materials. At last, the challenges and prospects for designing efficient TM-based catalytic materials for high-performance RT Na–S batteries are discussed.

AB - Room-temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) batteries have emerged as a promising candidate for next-generation scalable energy storage systems, due to their high theoretical energy density, low cost, and natural abundance. However, the practical applications of these batteries are hindered by the notorious shuttle effect of soluble sodium polysulfides (NaPSs) and sluggish reaction kinetics, which result in fast performance loss. To address this issue, recent studies have reported impressive achievements of transition metal nanoparticles/single atoms/cluster/compounds (TM)-based host materials with strong adsorption and catalyzation to NaPSs. These materials can significantly improve the electrochemical performance of RT Na–S batteries. In this review, the recent progress on TM-based host materials for RT Na–S batteries, including iron (Fe)-, cobalt (Co)-, nickel (Ni)-, molybdenum (Mo)-, titanium (Ti)-, vanadium (V)-, manganese (Mn)-, and other TM-based materials are summarized. The design, fabrication, and properties of these host materials are comprehensively summarized and systematically analyzed the underlying chemical inhibition and electrocatalysis mechanism between NaPSs and TM-based catalytic materials. At last, the challenges and prospects for designing efficient TM-based catalytic materials for high-performance RT Na–S batteries are discussed.

KW - catalytic materials

KW - room-temperature sodium–sulfur batteries

KW - shuttle effects

KW - sluggish kinetics

KW - transition metal nanoparticles/compounds

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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.202302626

DO - 10.1002/adfm.202302626

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85164511784

VL - 34

JO - Advanced functional materials

JF - Advanced functional materials

SN - 1616-301X

IS - 5

M1 - 2302626

ER -