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Advanced Fiber Materials, Volume. 6, Issue 3, 00380(2024)

Efficient and Homogenous Precipitation of Sulfur Within a 3D Electrospun Heterocatalytic Rutile/Anatase TiO2-x Framework in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

Ping Feng1... Kang Dong1, Yaolin Xu1, Xia Zhang1, Haojun Jia2, Henrik Prell3, Michael Tovar3, Ingo Manke1, Fuyao Liu4, Hengxue Xiang4,*, Meifang Zhu4, and Yan Lu1,56,** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Institute of Electrochemical Energy Storage, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, 14109 Berlin, Germany
  • 2Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
  • 3Department Structure and Dynamics of Energy Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, 14109 Berlin, Germany
  • 4State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China
  • 5Institute for Technical and Environmental Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
  • 6Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena (HIPOLE Jena), 07743, Jena, Germany
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    Ping Feng, Kang Dong, Yaolin Xu, Xia Zhang, Haojun Jia, Henrik Prell, Michael Tovar, Ingo Manke, Fuyao Liu, Hengxue Xiang, Meifang Zhu, Yan Lu. Efficient and Homogenous Precipitation of Sulfur Within a 3D Electrospun Heterocatalytic Rutile/Anatase TiO2-x Framework in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries[J]. Advanced Fiber Materials, 2024, 6(3): 00380

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    Received: Oct. 10, 2023

    Accepted: Jan. 16, 2024

    Published Online: Jul. 31, 2024

    The Author Email: Hengxue Xiang (hengxuexiang@dhu.edu.cn), Yan Lu (yan.lu@helmholtz-berlin.de)

    DOI:10.1007/s42765-024-00380-1

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