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Defective MnO2 functional separator coating as effective polysulfide mediators for lithium–sulfur batteries

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Acknowledgements

Q.-Q. Lu would like to acknowledge the financial supports from the Joint Fund of Henan Province Science and Technology R&D Program (225200810093) and the Startup Research of Henan Academy of Sciences (231817001). We also acknowledge financially supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51272147), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2015JM5208), the Graduate Innovation Found of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology and Scientific Research Project of Chengdu Technological University (2023RC001). This work is also supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFC1520100). Y.-Q. Feng acknowledges the financial support from China Scholarship Council. The authors thank Ignacio G. Gonzalez-Martinez at IFW Dresden for TEM characterization, Martin Hantusch at IFW Dresden for XPS characterization, Hai-Jiao Xie at Hangzhou Yanqu Information Technology Co., Ltd. for the theoretical calculation, and Daria Mikhailova for XAS measurement. The authors also thank R. Buckan, A. Voidel and A. Voß (all of them from IFW Dresden) for technical support, A. Voidel and A. Voß were also acknowledged for help with ICP-OES analysis and chemical titration. The authors also acknowledge the discussion with Ming-Ming Han at Zhejiang Normal University. Beamtime allocation and support at beamline P65 of the PETRA III synchrotron (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg, Germany) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Materials, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, 710021, China

    Yan-Qi Feng & Hui Liu

  3. Institute of Materials, Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Conductor Materials, Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou, 450046, China

    Qiong-Qiong Lu

  4. Institute of Materials Chemistry, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden e.V., Dresden, 01069, Germany

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Feng, YQ., Lu, QQ. & Liu, H. Defective MnO2 functional separator coating as effective polysulfide mediators for lithium–sulfur batteries. Tungsten 6, 536–543 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42864-023-00259-5

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