Cover Feature: Cold Sintering of a Covalently Bonded MoS₂/Graphite Composite as a High Capacity Li–Ion Electrode (ChemNanoMat 10/2018)

A low temperature cold sintering process that permits consolidation and sintering of covalently bonded electrode materials has been demonstrated. A MoS2-graphite composite electrode was successfully densified at extremely low temperature, 140°C, with the addition of ammonium molybdate and thiourea. The densification approach has led to the design of high volumetric capacity anodes for lithium-ion batteries with very low interfacial resistance. The fabricated electrode displayed good capacity retention at higher current densities with a specific capacity of 950 mAh/g at 0.1 A/g. More information can be found in the Full Paper by Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan et al. on page 1088 in Issue 10, 2018 (DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201800342).