CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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IF 15.1
Dong Li,Weiyu Wang,Jie Liu,Maoshuai He
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery has been recognized as a new energy storage device with broad prospects because of its satisfactory specific capacity and theoretical energy density. Nevertheless, the shuttle effect of polysulfides seriously hinders the real applications of high-sulfur-loaded Li-S batteries. To remove the hurdle, hierarchical lamellar single-walled carbon nanotube aerogels (SWCNTAs) are herein fabricated and applied as multifunctional interlayers in Li-S batteries, which exhibit an initial area-specific capacity as high as 7.1 mAh cm −2 at a sulfur loading of 8.02 mg cm −2 . The introduced SWCNTA interlayers can lower the internal resistance and suppress the shuttling of polysulfides by a layer-by-layer physical blocking mechanism. Moreover, owing to the super wettability of SWCNTAs, electrolytes with a dosage of 10 μL mg −1 could effectively wet and infiltrate the interlayers, rendering the lean-electrolyte Li-S batteries a high specific capacity of 559 mAh g −1 at a sulfur loading of 10.35 mg cm −2 after 60 cycles. This work presents an example for rationally designing the interlayers structures for high-sulfur loading batteries, which paves a stepping stone for the future commercialization of Li-S batteries.
研究领域:
材料科学
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能源存储技术
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RSC Advances
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2015
·Vol. 5
·期 117
·96862-96869
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IF 3.84
Zhijie Gong,Qixing Wu,Fang Wang,Xu Li,Xianping Fan,Hui Yang,Zhongkuan Luo
Increasing the sulfur loading in the cathode of a lithium–sulfur battery is an important way to improve its capacity for practical applications. To achieve this, the present work proposes using PEDOT-PSS to encapsulate sulfur/carbon black (S/BP) by a facile solution mixing method and the formed composite is then coated on a porous carbon paper. It is believed that the formation of a core/shell structure in the PEDOT@S/BP composite can promote the electron transport and effectively impede the diffusion of polysulfides, and the porous carbon paper is able to retain the electrolyte containing the dissolved polysulfides in the cathode and alleviate the adverse effect of sulfur volumetric expansion. Due to such advantages, the proposed cathode, with a high sulfur loading of 3 mg cm−2, can yield a high reversible capacity of 1041 mA h g−1 and an excellent cycle stability with a capacity retention of 868 mA h g−1 after 100 cycles and an average coulombic efficiency of 99.4%.
研究领域:
电化学
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能源材料
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纳米复合材料
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电池技术
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功能高分子材料
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2022
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IF 7.336
Heli Yu,Mingzhu Bi,Cuijuan Zhang,Tianjie Zhang,Xiaoning Zhang,Hongtao Liu,Jianli Mi,Xiangqian Shen,Shanshan Yao
Construction of high sulfur loading electrode is one of the effective ways to achieve high specific energy density lithium/sulfur batteries. Therefore, the optimization of polymeric binders has been considered as effective strategy to improve the volume changes of sulfur electrodes during charge/discharge processes. In this work, an effective route for the preparation of three dimensional polymeric binder (PAA-PANI) via multiple hydrogen bonds was developed and fabricated through in situ polymerization between polyacrylic acid (PAA) and polyaniline (PANI), which possess bifunctional effects on high sulfur loading cathodes in lithium/sulfur batteries. The carboxyl polar groups of PAA could effectively adsorb polysulfides and the conductive PANI enhance the electronic conductivity of the sulfur electrode. The three dimensional polymeric binder of PAA-PANI has enhanced the active material adhesion, mechanical properties and electronic conductivity, which decreased overpotential polarization, improved the lithium ions diffusion coefficient, and reduced the self-discharge. More importantly, the PAA-PANI functional binder could alleviate the expansion of high sulfur loading electrode. Taking advantages of PAA-PANI binder, the carbon nanotubes modified sulfur electrode (CNTs@S; sulfur content: 84.3 wt%) with PAA-PANI binder exhibits an initial discharge capacity of 906 mAh g –1 at 2.56 mA cm –2 (0.3 C) under a sulfur loading of 5.1 mg cm –2 . Even at higher current density of 8.54 mA cm –2 (1 C), the PAA-PANI binder electrode delivers a high capacity of 846 mAh g –1 . Moreover, with an extremely high areal sulfur loading of 17 mg cm –2 , the cathode shows an areal specific capacity of 16.7 mAh cm –2 .
研究领域:
电化学
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能源材料
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高能电池
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功能高分子
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界面化学
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储能技术
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高影响因子
Advanced Energy Materials
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2018
·Vol. 9
·期 7
·1802955
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IF 21.875
Yin Hu,Wei Chen,Tianyu Lei,Bin Zhou,Yu Jiao,Yichao Yan,Xinchuan Du,Jianwen Huang,Chunyang Wu,Xuepeng Wang,Yang Wang,Bo Chen,Jun Xu,Chao Wang,Jie Xiong
Significant progress has achieved for developing lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries with high specific capacities and excellent cyclic stability. However, some critical issues emerge when attempts are made to raise the areal sulfur loading and increase the operation current density to meet the standards for various industrial applications. In this work, polyethylenimine-functionalized carbon dots (PEI-CDots) are designed and prepared for enhancing performance of the Li–S batteries with high sulfur loadings and operation under high current density situations. Strong chemical binding effects towards polysulfides and fast ion transport property are achieved in the PEI-CDots-modified cathodes. At a high current density of 8 mA cm −2 , the PEI-CDots-modified Li–S battery delivers a reversible areal capacity of 3.3 mAh cm −2 with only 0.07% capacity decay per cycle over 400 cycles at 6.6 mg sulfur loading. Detailed analysis, involving electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and density functional theory calculations, is done for the elucidation of the underlying enhancement mechanism by the PEI-CDots. The strongly localized sulfur species and the promoted Li + ion conductivity at the cathode–electrolyte interface are revealed to enable high-performance Li–S batteries with high sulfur loading and large operational current.
研究领域:
能源材料
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电化学
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纳米材料
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电池技术
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DOI
高影响因子
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