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Shuttle suppression in room temperature sodium-sulfur batteries using ion selective polymer membranes
1Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS), Winterbergstraße 28, D-01277 Dresden, Germany. stefan.kaskel@iws.fraunhofer.de.
Abstract:
A sodiated Nafion-coating on a porous polypropylene backbone was used as a cation selective separator for room temperature sodium-sulfur batteries. The capacity of the cells after 20 cycles could be enhanced by 75% to 350 mA h g(sulfur)(-1) using the new separator.

