An optimal carbon fiber interlayer integrated with bio-based gel polymer electrolyte enabling trapping-diffusion-conversion of polysulfides in lithium-sulfur batteries

The shuttle effect of the highly soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) has hampered the widespread use of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries in various high performance energy-storage devices. Herein, an optimum carbon fiber interlayer integrated with bio-based gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) was designed for enabling trapping-diffusion-conversion of LiPSs. The interlayer was obtained through simple calcination of commercial carbon textile (CT), which...