Vanadium based carbide–oxide heterogeneous V2O5@V2C nanotube arrays for high-rate and long-life lithium–sulfur batteries

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (36) ◽  
pp. 18950-18964
Author(s):  
Zhenguo Wang ◽  
Ke Yu ◽  
Shijing Gong ◽  
Erwei Du ◽  
Ziqiang Zhu

V2O5 nanotube arrays were grown on V2C nanosheets to suppress the shuttle effect and extend the life of lithium–sulfur batteries.

Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (44) ◽  
pp. 21532-21541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaiyue Zhang ◽  
Hongtao Cui ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Yuanyuan Liu ◽  
Yanzhao Yang ◽  
...  

A hollow Fe3C@N–C with frogspawn-like architecture was successfully constructed as an efficient sulfur host for high-rate and long-life lithium–sulfur batteries.


2019 ◽  
Vol 320 ◽  
pp. 134558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingtao Wang ◽  
Pengfei Zhai ◽  
Tongkun Zhao ◽  
Mengjia Li ◽  
Zhihao Yang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuemei Zhang ◽  
Yunhong Wei ◽  
Boya Wang ◽  
Mei Wang ◽  
Yun Zhang ◽  
...  

Abstract Boosting the utilization efficiency of sulfur electrodes and suppressing the “shuttle effect” of intermediate polysulfides remain the critical challenge for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs). However, most of reported sulfur electrodes are not competent to realize the fast conversion of polysulfides into insoluble lithium sulfides when applied with high sulfur loading, as well as to mitigate the more serious shuttle effect of polysulfides, especially when worked at an elevated temperature. Herein, we reported a unique structural engineering strategy of crafting a unique hierarchical multifunctional electrode architecture constructed by rooting MOF-derived CoS2/carbon nanoleaf arrays (CoS2–CNA) into a nitrogen-rich 3D conductive scaffold (CTNF@CoS2–CNA) for LSBs. An accelerated electrocatalytic effect and improved polysulfide redox kinetics arising from CoS2–CNA were investigated. Besides, the strong capillarity effect and chemisorption of CTNF@CoS2–CNA to polysulfides enable high loading and efficient utilization of sulfur, thus leading to high-performance LIBs performed not only at room temperature but also up to an elevated temperature (55 °C). Even with the ultrahigh sulfur loading of 7.19 mg cm−2, the CTNF@CoS2–CNA/S cathode still exhibits high rate capacity at 55 °C.


ACS Nano ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 3982-3991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Mingchu Zou ◽  
Wenqi Zhao ◽  
Yunsong Wang ◽  
Yijun Chen ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (06) ◽  
pp. 1840001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Wang ◽  
Xinqi Liang ◽  
Minghua Chen ◽  
Xinhui Xia

It is of great importance to develop high-quality carbon/sulfur cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs). Herein, we report a facile strategy to embed sulfur into interconnected carbon nanoflake matrix forming integrated electrode. Interlinked carbon nanoflakes have dual roles not only as a highly conductive matrix to host sulfur, but also act as blocking barriers to suppress the shuttle effect of intermediate polysulfides. In the light of these positive characteristics, the obtained carbon nanoflake/S cathode exhibit good LSBs performances with high capacities (1117[Formula: see text]mAh[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text] at 0.2[Formula: see text]C, and 741[Formula: see text]mAh[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text] at 0.6[Formula: see text]C) and good high-rate cycling performance. Our synthetic method provides a novel way to construct enhanced carbon/sulfur cathode for LSBs.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 7744-7750
Author(s):  
Ting Zhou ◽  
Zihan Shen ◽  
Yong Wu ◽  
Tianli Han ◽  
Mengfei Zhu ◽  
...  

A yolk–shell Fe3O4@S@C nanochain in which sulfur is encapsulated between the Fe3O4 core and the carbon shell is developed for Li–S batteries.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1601943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Seop Lee ◽  
Wooyoung Kim ◽  
Jyongsik Jang ◽  
Arumugam Manthiram

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