Flexible Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

6Flexible Electrodes for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

Jia‐Qi Huang^1,2 Meng Zhao¹, Rui Xu¹, and Qiang Zhang²

¹Beijing Institute of Technology, Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China

²Tsinghua University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghuayuan 1, Beijing, 100084, China

6.1 Introduction

With the rapid development of portable electronic devices and emerging wearable technologies, the demand for power supplies with high energy densities are ever increasing [1–3]. Lithium ion batteries have dominated the market in commercial high energy density battery systems [4–6]. However, the energy density of lithium ion batteries is approaching the theoretical limit. As the battery systems ...