Figure 2

Macroscopic appearance of the aerogel and state of sulfur in the structure.
(a) Photograph of an aerogel electrode (b) Relative weight loss over temperature calculated from thermogravimetric analysis data. (c) SEM image with EDX line scan (yellow line) over cross section surface revealing the homogenous distribution of sulfur throughout the structure. (Stronger signal in direction of the white arrow indicates stronger presence of respective element. blue: sulfur, green: carbon, red: oxygen). (d) X-ray diffraction pattern for sulfur-aerogel and elemental sulfur reference.