@article{82ac4331e6f54663bf2f041a38b13248,
title = "Sulfur confined MXene hosts enabling the use of carbonate-based electrolytes in alkali metal (Li/Na/K)-sulfur batteries",
abstract = "Room-temperature alkali metal–sulfur batteries are promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries because of their high capacity and low inherent cost. Herein, we report MXene (Ti3C2Tx) as a host to confine sulfur (S8), enabling the use of commercialization-friendly carbonate electrolyte in metal–sulfur batteries. The multilayer MXene structure provides tunable spacing for S8 confinement, and its unique interlayer spacing prevents adverse polysulfide-carbonate reactions.",
keywords = "2D, Carbides, Chalcogen, Energy, Intercalation",
author = "Rahul Pai and Varun Natu and Maxim Sokol and Michael Carey and Thomas Greszler and Barsoum, {Michel W.} and Vibha Kalra",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are especially thankful to the MCC facility at Drexel University for help with materials characterization equipment. The authors would also like to thank Dr. Giuseppe Palmese's group for their help with thermogravimetric analysis. The authors would also like to thank the National Science Foundation ( DMR -1740795 and CMMI - 1919177 ) for funding this work. Funding Information: Prof. Vibha Kalra is George B. Francis Chair Professor and the Director of the PhD Program in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. In addition, she serves as the associate editor of Chemical Engineering Science journal since 2013. Kalra received her BS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India, in 2004 and PhD from Cornell University in 2009, both in Chemical Engineering. Before joining Drexel in the Fall of 2010, Kalra worked in the electronic packaging research division at Intel Corporation. Her research group combines advanced material manufacturing, assembly and characterization, study of fundamental electrochemical behavior, in-operando spectroelectrochemistry, and device assembly and testing to develop next-generation batteries and supercapacitors. She has published close to 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and has 12 pending/issued patents in the field of energy storage. Kalra is a recipient of several awards, including the NSF CAREER award (2012), ONR summer faculty fellowship (2013), AIChE DVS Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award (2015), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Outstanding Service Award (2018), College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award, both at assistant professor level (2015) and at midcareer level (2020), Provost Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Research Achievement (2020), and the College of Engineering Outstanding Innovation Award (2021). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2022",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.mtener.2022.101000",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
journal = "Materials Today Energy",
issn = "2468-6069",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd.",
}
