{"id":240314,"date":"2026-07-05T03:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-cof-graphene-hybrid-opens-new-horizons-for-lithium-sulfur-batteries"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:14:24","slug":"a-cof-graphene-hybrid-opens-new-horizons-for-lithium-sulfur-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-cof-graphene-hybrid-opens-new-horizons-for-lithium-sulfur-batteries","title":{"rendered":"A COF-graphene hybrid opens new horizons for lithium-sulfur batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cof-graphene-hybrid-opens-new-horizons-for-lithium-sulfur-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries combine the abundance and affordability of sulfur with an energy storage capability far beyond that of current lithium-ion technologies. Practical deployment, however, has been slowed by a longstanding challenge known as polysulfide shuttling, whereby dissolved sulfur intermediates migrate within the battery, leading to active-material loss and premature performance decay.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from Tohoku University and collaborating institutions have tackled this problem by developing a molecularly designed covalent organic framework (COF)-graphene interlayer. This lightweight interface mitigates polysulfide shuttling by combining chemical trapping, rapid charge transport and sulfur-conversion promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The work was <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/smll.74240\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Small<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries combine the abundance and affordability of sulfur with an energy storage capability far beyond that of current lithium-ion technologies. Practical deployment, however, has been slowed by a longstanding challenge known as polysulfide shuttling, whereby dissolved sulfur intermediates migrate within the battery, leading to active-material loss and premature performance decay. Now, researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}