The aluminum-sulfur battery offers cost-effective, fire-resistant energy storage, challenging lithium-ion dominance in safety and affordability. The three primary constituents of the battery are aluminum (left), sulfur (center), and rock salt crystals (right).
Among the plethora of contenders in the ‘beyond lithium’ domain, the aluminum–sulfur (Al–S) batteries have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their low cost and high theoretical volumetric and gravimetric energy densities (3177 Wh L −1 and 1392 Wh kg −1).
The composition of a general metal-sulfur battery includes a metal anode and a sulfur-containing host on the cathode. The emergence of aluminum-based metal-sulfur batteries or aluminum-sulfur batteries can be attributed to the natural abundance of aluminum, considerable reduction in production cost, and high theoretical energy density.
Among the potential cathode materials, sulfur has become an important candidate material for aluminum-ion batteries cause of its considerable specific capacity. Two-dimensional materials are currently potential candidates as electrodes from labscale experiments to possible pragmatic theoretical studies.
Various carbon-based materials are reviewed as sulfur hosts in Al-S batteries. Surface modification of carbon materials prevents the dissolution of sulfur species. Carbon-modified hosts also minimize the migration of polysulfides toward the anode. For practical applications, rechargeable Al-S batteries need new advanced materials.
In this regard, rechargeable metal-sulfur batteries such as aluminum-sulfur (Al–S) batteries can be presented as viable options in the future of energy storage devices. Various Al–S batteries have been developed since the 1980s owing to the high natural abundance, high density, and +3 valency of aluminum metal .
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