Rational design of advanced electrocatalysts based on reactivity descriptors for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries
This review organizes lithium-sulfur battery catalyst research around the fundamental chemistry of sulfur conversion and its rate-limiting steps, links catalyst modulation strategies to descriptors, groups descriptors into electronic, thermodynamic, and structural categories with their property-performance relationships, and points toward universal descriptors as well as the potential roles of in situ characterization, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence in descriptor construction and the design of highly active catalysts.