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    Simultaneous Suppression of Shuttle Effect and Lithium Dendrite Growth by Lightweight Bifunctional Separator for Li–S Batteries
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    • Seoa Kim
      Seoa Kim
      Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-Ro, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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    • Won-Gwang Lim
      Won-Gwang Lim
      Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-Ro, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
      Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 37673, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea
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      Ara Cho
      Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 37673, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea
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      Jooyoung Jeong
      Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-Ro, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
      Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-Ro, Nam-Gu, Pohang 37673, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea
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      Changshin Jo
      Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom
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      DongGyu Kang
      Department of Material Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-Ro, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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      Seung Min Han
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    The practical use of lithium–sulfur battery (LSB) is impeded by the excessive growth of Li dendrite in the anode and the dissolution of soluble intermediates (shuttle effect) in the cathode. In spite of efforts to overcome these issues, separate research in the anode and cathode fields could not tackle the problems of both electrodes simultaneously, limiting the realization of LSB. Herein, a bifunctional separator is fabricated by coating morphology-controlled NbN on a Celgard separator. The large surface area (67 m2 g–1) and strong adsorptive surface of NbN effectively suppress the crossover of soluble intermediates to the anode side, and the captured sulfur species can be reactivated on the electrical conductive NbN surface to enhance the capacity. Most importantly, the improved mechanical strength and electrolyte wettability of separator by NbN functional layer suppress the growth of Li dendrite in anode. Consequently, even with sulfur loading of 4 mg cm–2, the capacity decay per cycle reaches only 0.061% during 300 cycles at 1 C rate.

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    • Schematics of battery cell configuration and Li–S battery voltage profile; SEM images; XRD patterns; isotherm linear plot of f-Nb2O5; photographs of cells and separators and static adsorption tests; UV–visible spectra; HR-TEM image; voltage profiles; Nyquist plots; QH/QL values; contact angles; thermal stabilities; bending stability test; retention ratios (PDF)

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