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Potassium–Sulfur System: Thermodynamic Properties, Electrochemical Studies, and Prospects for Use in Chemical Current Sources

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In the first two decades of the XXI century, there has been a significant increase in the number of published papers dealing with the improvement of existing and development of new chemical current sources (CCSs) containing alkali metals. Large-scale propduction of lithium-ion batteries started in 1990–1991. Since that time, new anode and cathode materials and electrolytes with useful properties have been suggested for these batteries in many hundreds and, possibly, thousands of papers. Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded in 2019 for fundamental studies in this field, performed in the 1970–1980s. Since the beginning of the XXI century, numerous papers deal also with sodium-ion batteries and rechargeable CCSs that are based on lithium–chalcogen and sodium–chalcogen systems and are suitable for use at room temperature. Since 2013, increasing number of papers deal with potassium-ion batteries and potassium–chalcogen and potassium–oxygen systems (72 papers on rechargeable potassium batteries have been published in 2017). In this small review, I consider thermodynamic and electrochemical studies of the potassium–sulfur system, performed in different periods, and also recent papers on CCSs based on the potassium–sulfur system.

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Morachevskii, A.G. Potassium–Sulfur System: Thermodynamic Properties, Electrochemical Studies, and Prospects for Use in Chemical Current Sources. Russ J Appl Chem 93, 1103–1114 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070427220080017

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