Facile Synthesis of Uniform Carbon Coated Li2S/rGO cathode for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

MRS Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (60) ◽  
pp. 3501-3506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaind P. Pandey ◽  
Joshua Adkins ◽  
Lamartine Meda
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Active Material ◽  
Cycling Performance ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Shell Nanostructures ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Carbon Coated ◽  
Co Precipitation ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

ABSTRACTLithium sulfide (Li2S) is one of the most attractive cathode materials for high energy density lithium batteries as it has a high theoretical capacity of 1166 mA h g-1. However, Li2S suffers from poor rate performance and short cycle life due to its insulating nature and polysulfide shuttle during cycling. In this work, we report a facile and viable approach to address these issues. We propose a method to synthesize a Li2S based nanocomposite cathode material by dissolving Li2S as the active material, polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as the carbon precursor, and graphene oxide (GO) as a matrix to enhance the conductivity, followed by a co-precipitation and high-temperature carbonization process. The Li2S/rGO cathode yields an exceptionally high initial capacity of 817 mAh g-1 based on Li2S mass at C/20 rate and also shows a good cycling performance. The carbon-coated Li2S/rGO cathode demonstrates the capability of robust core-shell nanostructures for different rates and improved capacity retention, revealing carbon coated Li2S/rGO composites as an outstanding system for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries.

Two-Dimensional Imine-Based Covalent-Organic-Framework Derived Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Nanosheets for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaofei Guo ◽  
Jiaojiao Xu ◽  
Li-Ping Lv ◽  
Shuangqiang Chen ◽  
Weiwei Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Cycling Performance ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Carbon Nanosheets ◽  
Nitrogen Doped ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
High Theoretical Capacity ◽  
Low Sulfur ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

Lithium-sulfur batteries are attracting more attention for high theoretical capacity and high energy density. And in order to overcome the problem of short cycling performance, low sulfur loading and shuttle...

scholarly journals MoO2 nanoparticles embedded in N-doped hydrangea-like carbon as a sulfur host for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
pp. 20173-20183
Author(s):  
Yasai Wang ◽  
Guilin Feng ◽  
Yang Wang ◽  
Zhenguo Wu ◽  
Yanxiao Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Energy Storage Devices ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Sulfur Host ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

Lithium–sulfur batteries are considered to be promising energy storage devices owing to their high energy density, relatively low price and abundant resources.

scholarly journals A nitrogen–sulfur co-doped porous graphene matrix as a sulfur immobilizer for high performance lithium–sulfur batteries

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (44) ◽  
pp. 17381-17393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Xu ◽  
Dawei Su ◽  
Wenxue Zhang ◽  
Weizhai Bao ◽  
Guoxiu Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Physical Adsorption ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Chemical Binding ◽  
Porous Graphene ◽  
Long Cycle Life ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Co Doped ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

The combination of the physical adsorption of lithium polysulfides onto porous graphene and the chemical binding of polysulfides to N and S sites promotes reversible Li2S/polysulfide/S conversion, realizing high performance Li–S batteries with long cycle life and high-energy density.

Graphene oxide-polypyrrole composite as sulfur hosts for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (06) ◽  
pp. 1840007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Wang ◽  
Chengkai Yang ◽  
Hui Tang ◽  
Kai Wu ◽  
Henghui Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Specific Capacity ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Composite Cathodes ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Lithium Sulfur ◽  
Capacity Decay

Lithium-sulfur batteries are considered as a promising candidate for the next-generation high energy density storage devices. However, they are still hindered by serious capacity decay on cycling caused by the dissolution of redox intermediates. Here, we designed a unique structure with polypyrrole (ppy) inserting into the graphene oxide (GO) sheet for accommodating sulfur. Such a sulfur host not only exhibits a good electronic and ionic conductivity, but also can suppress polysulfide dissolution effectively. With this advanced design, the composite cathode showed a high specific capacity of 548.4[Formula: see text]mA[Formula: see text]h[Formula: see text]g[Formula: see text] at 5.0 C. A stable Coulombic efficiency of [Formula: see text]99.5% and a capacity decay rate as low as 0.089% per cycle along with 300 cycles at 1.0 C were achieved for composite cathodes with 78[Formula: see text]wt.% of S. Besides, the interaction mechanism between PPy and lithium polysulfides (LPS) was investigated by density-functional theory (DFT), suggesting that only the polymerization of N atoms can bind strongly to Li ions of LPS rather than single N atoms. The 3D structure GO-PPy host with high conductivity and excellent trapping ability to LPS offered a viable strategy to design high-performance cathodes for Li–S batteries.

Uniform Li2S precipitation on N,O-codoped porous hollow carbon fibers for high-energy-density lithium–sulfur batteries with superior stability

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (73) ◽  
pp. 10964-10967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Qie ◽  
Arumugam Manthiram
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Active Material ◽  
Current Collector ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Hollow Carbon ◽  
Sulfur Cathodes ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

Long-term cycling stability with high-loading sulfur cathodes has been achieved using N,O-codoped carbon hollow fibers as the current collector and Li2S6 as the starting active material.

Sulfur vacancies in Co9S8-x/N-doped graphene enhancing electrochemical kinetics to high-performance lithium sulfur batteries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haojie Li ◽  
Yihua Song ◽  
Kai Xi ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Sheng Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cathode Materials ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Catalytic Conversion ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Electrochemical Kinetics ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Doped Graphene ◽  
Sulfur Battery ◽  
Areal Capacity ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

A sufficient areal capacity is necessary for achieving high-energy lithium sulfur battery, which requires high enough sulfur loading in cathode materials. Therefore, kinetically fast catalytic conversion of polysulfide intermediates is...

scholarly journals Confine sulfur in double-hollow carbon sphere integrated with carbon nanotubes for advanced lithium–sulfur batteries

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maru Dessie Walle ◽  
You-Nian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Coulombic Efficiency ◽  
Specific Capacity ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Carbon Sphere ◽  
Hollow Carbon Sphere ◽  
Lithium Sulfur Batteries ◽  
Hollow Carbon ◽  
Lithium Sulfur

AbstractThe lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are promising because of the high energy density, low cost, and natural abundance of sulfur material. Li–S batteries have suffered from severe capacity fading and poor cyclability, resulting in low sulfur utilization. Herein, S-DHCS/CNTs are synthesized by integration of a double-hollow carbon sphere (DHCS) with carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and the addition of sulfur in DHCS by melt impregnations. The proposed S-DHCS/CNTs can effectively confine sulfur and physically suppress the diffusion of polysulfides within the double-hollow structures. CNTs act as a conductive agent. S-DHCS/CNTs maintain the volume variations and accommodate high sulfur content 73 wt%. The designed S-DHCS/CNTs electrode with high sulfur loading (3.3 mg cm−2) and high areal capacity (5.6 mAh mg cm−2) shows a high initial specific capacity of 1709 mAh g−1 and maintains a reversible capacity of 730 mAh g−1 after 48 cycles at 0.2 C with high coulombic efficiency (100%). This work offers a fascinating strategy to design carbon-based material for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document