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Nitrogen-rich a-MEGO@g-C3N4 coating on separator for advanced Li-S battery

  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Funds:  Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21373197).
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    DU Juan, female, born in 1993, master candidate. Research field: nitrogen-rich carbon-based materials. E-mail: dj2014@mail.ustc.edu.cn

  • Corresponding author: JI Hengxing
  • Received Date: 05 April 2017
  • Rev Recd Date: 15 May 2017
  • Publish Date: 31 March 2018
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    Lithium-sulfur batteries are widely seen as a promising next-generation energy storage system owing to their ultrahigh energy density and environmental benignity, yet the low electrical conductivity of sulfur and the shuttle effect of dissolved polysulfides result in poor cycling performance. An a-MEGO@g-C3N4composite coated on polypropylene separator with high nitrogen content (atomic percent 20.08%) and specific surface area (1000 m2·g-1) was developed to inhibit polysulfide shuttling. The prepared lithium-sulfur battery with the a-MEGO@g-C3N4 coated separator delivered a specific capacity

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    Lithium-sulfur batteries are widely seen as a promising next-generation energy storage system owing to their ultrahigh energy density and environmental benignity, yet the low electrical conductivity of sulfur and the shuttle effect of dissolved polysulfides result in poor cycling performance. An a-MEGO@g-C3N4composite coated on polypropylene separator with high nitrogen content (atomic percent 20.08%) and specific surface area (1000 m2·g-1) was developed to inhibit polysulfide shuttling. The prepared lithium-sulfur battery with the a-MEGO@g-C3N4 coated separator delivered a specific capacity
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    [1]
    SCROSATI B, HASSOUN J, SUN Y K. Lithium-ion batteries. A look into the future [J]. Energy & Environmental Science, 2011, 4 (9): 3287-3295.
    [2]
    JI X, NAZAR L F. Advances in Li-S batteries [J]. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010, 20 (44): 9821.
    [3]
    YIN Y X, XIN S, GUO Y G, et al. Lithium-sulfur batteries: Electrochemistry, materials, and prospects [J]. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52 (50): 13186-13200.
    [4]
    ZHOU G, PEI S, LI L, et al. A graphene-pure-sulfur sandwich structure for ultrafast, long-life lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Advanced Materials, 2014, 26 (4): 625-631.
    [5]
    MANTHIRAM A, FU Y, SU Y S. Challenges and prospects of lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2012, 46 (5): 1125-1134.
    [6]
    YANG Y, ZHENG G, CUI Y. Nanostructured sulfur cathodes [J]. Chemical Society Reviews, 2013, 42 (7): 3018-3032.
    [7]
    ZHOU G, WANG D W, LI F, et al. A flexible nanostructured sulphur-carbon nanotube cathode with high rate performance for Li-S batteries [J]. Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, 5 (10): 8901-8906.
    [8]
    ZHOU G, LI L, MA C, et al. A graphene foam electrode with high sulfur loading for flexible and high energy Li-S batteries [J]. Nano Energy, 2015, 11: 356-365.
    [9]
    LI G, SUN J, HOU W, et al. Three-dimensional porous carbon composites containing high sulfur nanoparticle content for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Nature Communications, 2016, 7: 10601-10611.
    [10]
    JI X, EVERS S, BLACK R, et al. Stabilizing lithium-sulphur cathodes using polysulphide reservoirs [J]. Nature Communications, 2011, 2: 325-332.
    [11]
    WANG D W, ZENG Q, ZHOU G, et al. Carbon-sulfur composites for Li-S batteries: Status and prospects [J]. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1 (33): 9382-9394.
    [12]
    BAI S, LIU X, ZHU K, et al. Metal-organic framework-based separator for lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Nature Energy, 2016, 1: 16094-16100.
    [13]
    HUANG J Q, ZHANG Q, PENG H J, et al. Ionic shield for polysulfides towards highly-stable lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Energy & Environmental Science, 2014, 7 (1): 347-353.
    [14]
    YAO H, YAN K, LI W, et al. Improved lithium-sulfur batteries with a conductive coating on the separator to prevent the accumulation of inactive S-related species at the cathode-separator interface [J]. Energy & Environmental Science, 2014, 7 (10): 3381-3390.
    [15]
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    [16]
    ZHANG S, UENO K, DOKKO K, et al. Recent advances in electrolytes for lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Advanced Energy Materials, 2015, 5 (16): 1500117-1500145.
    [17]
    BALACH J, JAUMANN T, KLOSE M, et al. Functional mesoporous carbon-coated separator for long-life, high-energy lithium-sulfur batteries [J]. Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 25 (33): 5285-5291.
    [18]
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    [19]
    BALACH J, JAUMANN T, KLOSE M, et al. Improved cycling stability of lithium-sulfur batteries using a polypropylene-supported nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon hybrid separator as polysulfide adsorbent [J]. Journal of Power Sources, 2016, 303: 317-324.
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    [22]
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    [23]
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    [25]
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    ZHU Y, MURALI S, STOLLER M D, et al. Carbon-based supercapacitors produced by activation of graphene [J]. Science, 2011, 332 (6037): 1537-1541.
    [28]
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    LI X, LI X, BANIS M N, et al. Tailoring interactions of carbon and sulfur in Li-S battery cathodes: Significant effects of carbon-heteroatom bonds [J]. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2 (32): 12866-12872.
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    MARMORSTEIN D, YU T H, STRIEBEL K A, et al. Electrochemical performance of lithium/sulfur cells with three different polymer electrolytes [J]. Journal of Power Sources, 2000, 89 (2): 219-226.
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    PANG Q, NAZAR L F. Long-life and high areal capacity Li-S batteries enabled by a light-weight polar host with intrinsic polysulfide adsorption [J]. ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (4): 4111-4118.
    [32]
    FAN C Y, YUAN H Y, LI H H, et al. The effective design of a polysulfide-trapped separator at the molecular level for high energy density Li-S batteries [J]. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8 (25): 16108-16115.
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    PANG Q, KUNDU D, CUISINIER M, et al. Surface-enhanced redox chemistry of polysulphides on a metallic and polar host for lithium-sulphur batteries [J]. Nature Communications, 2014, 5: 4759-4767.
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