Composite Fabrics of Conformal MoS₂ Grown on CNT Fibers: Tough Battery Anodes without Metals or Binders

In the quest to increase battery performance, nanostructuring electrodes gives access architectures with electrical conductivity and solid-state diffusion regimes not accessible traditional based on aggregated spherical microparticles, while often also contributing cyclability of otherwise unstable active materials. This work describes where material current collector are formed as a single nanostructured composite network, consisting macroscopic fabrics carbon nanotube fibers covered conformal MoS2 grown preferentially aligned over graphitic layers, without metallic or any conductive polymeric additives. The fabric CNTF/MoS2 retain high toughness show out-of-plane 1.2 S/m, above threshold avoid transport-limited performance (1 S/m), control nanocomposite LIB (0.1 S/m) produced from dispersed nanocarbons. Cycled against Li, they specific capacity 0.7 Ah/g along appreciable rate capability cycling stability in low (108% retention after 50 cycles at 0.1 A/g) well density (89 % 250 1 A/g). flexible, tensile up J/g, two orders magnitude higher than conventional regular material, full-electrode state art different densities.