Chem. Sci., 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D5SC04604A, Edge Article Manchuan Guo, Jin Guo, Tao Ren, Haici Deng, Yanqiu Zhu, Jinliang Zhu To overcome the persistent challenges of sluggish lithium polysulfide (LiPS) conversion kinetics and the shuttle effect in Li–S batteries, this work introduces a novel, cost-effective thermal treatment strategy for synthesizing...