Design, Fabrication and Electrochemical Performance of Nanostructured Carbon Based Materials for High-Energy Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

Guangmin Zhou received his PhD from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014 under the supervision of professors Hui-Ming Cheng and Feng Li, prior to serving for a year as a postdoc with Prof. Manthiram at UT Austin. He is currently a postdoc fellow at Stanford University with Prof. Yi Cui. His research mainly focuses on advanced carbon-based (porous carbon, graphene, carbon nanotubes) composites for energy storage: their synthesis, electrochemical properties and mechanisms. Zhou has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and first-authored 21 papers published in Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Nano, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Nano Energy, etc. The paper published in Advanced Materials was selected as one of the Top 100 most influential papers in China in 2014. Additionally, he has authored 1 book chapter (Graphene Science Handbook) and holds 10 patents.

Introduction.- Revealing Localized Electrochemical Transition of Sulfur in Optimal Sub-nanometer Confinement.- Flexible nanostructured sulfur–carbon nanotube cathode with high rate performance for Li-S batteries.- Fibrous Hybrid of Graphene and Sulfur Nanocrystals for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.- Long-life Li/polysulfide batteries with high sulfur loading enabled by lightweight three-dimensional nitrogen/sulfur-codoped graphene sponge.- Graphene–Pure-Sulfur Sandwich Structure for Ultrafast, Long-Life Lithium–Sulfur Batteries.- Research Challenges and Directions.- Summary and Conclusions.