Free standing acetylene black mesh to capture dissolved polysulfide in lithium sulfur batteries

• DOI: 10.1039/c3cc46358c
• Publication Date: 2013-09-30T08:33:39Z
• Authors: Tae-Gyung Jeong; Young Hoon Moon; Ho-Hwan Chun; Hyung Sun Kim; Byung Won Cho; Yong-Tae Kim
• Keywords: Polysulfide; Acetylene; Lithium–sulfur battery

Herein, we report a cheap and simple approach to solve the polysulfide dissolution problem in lithium sulfur batteries. It was interestingly revealed that insertion of acetylene black mesh enabled us obtain capacity 1491 mA h g−1 at initial discharge 1062 after 50 cycles.