journal article·2025-11

Unlocking Room‐Temperature Sodium–Sulfur Batteries Through Electronic Tuning and Structural Disordering in Oxygen‐Incorporated MoS 2

Xingyu Lei, Wu Sun, Qi Zhang, Junyu Hou, Changsheng Song, Tianke Zhu, Ce Zhang, Qunyao Yuan, Gang Wang, Yuanfan Gu, Rongrong Cheacharoen, Guangmin Zhou, Jie Zhao

Advanced Energy Materials· Volume 15· Issue 41
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Abstract

Abstract The room‐temperature sodium–sulfur (RT Na–S) battery system holds considerable promise for high‐energy‐density storage, yet it persists in encountering critical challenges, including polysulfide dissolution, sluggish sulfur redox reactions (SRR), and constrained Na + transport. The rational design of electrocatalysts with optimized adsorption and powerful catalytic activity represents a key strategy to overcome these limitations. Herein, a synergistic catalyst design strategy is presented through the tuning of electronic properties and structural disorder based on oxygen‐incorporated MoS 2 nanosheets. The controllable oxygen incorporation enhances the intrinsic conductivity of MoS 2 and optimizes its adsorption–catalysis performance toward polysulfides. Simultaneously, the moderate structural disorder introduces abundant non‐metallic active sites for sulfur conversion without disrupting interdomain electron transport, thereby accelerating reaction kinetics. As a result, this electronically–structured dual‐optimized electrocatalyst with highly active and stable catalytic sites lowers the energy barrier of SRR and enhances both ion and electron transfer. Encouragingly, representative MoS 1.56 O 0.44 nanosheets, employed as a functional modification layer on the polypropylene separator, exhibit an outstanding rate capability of 560 mAh g −1 at 3 C and exceptional cycling stability in RT Na–S batteries, with a high retained capacity of 447 mAh g −1 over 1000 cycles at 1 C.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies · Advanced battery technologies research · MXene and MAX Phase Materials

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Affiliations

College of Smart Materials and Future Energy State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers Fudan University Shanghai 200438 P. R. China

Department of Engineering University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL UK

Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Tsinghua University Shenzhen 518055 P. R. China

Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand

Shenzhen Geim Graphene Center Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Tsinghua University Shenzhen 518055 P. R. China

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality · China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

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