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Long-life lithium-sulfur batteries with high areal capacity based on coaxial CNTs@TiN-TiO₂ sponge.

ABSTRACT: Rational design of heterostructures opens up new opportunities as an ideal catalyst system for lithium polysulfides conversion in lithium-sulfur battery. However, its traditional fabrication process is complex, which makes it difficult to reasonably control the content and distribution of each component. In this work, to rationally design the heterostructure, the atomic layer deposition is utilized to hybridize the TiO₂-TiN heterostructure with the three-dimensional carbon nanotube sponge. Through optimizing the deposited thickness of TiO₂ and TiN layers and adopting the annealing post-treatment, the derived coaxial sponge with uniform TiN-TiO₂ heterostructure exhibits the best catalytic ability. The corresponding lithium-sulfur battery shows enhanced electrochemical performance with high specific capacity of 1289 mAh g^-1 at 1 C and capacity retention of 85% after 500 cycles at 2 C. Furthermore, benefiting from the highly porous structure and interconnected conductive pathways from the sponge, its areal capacity reaches up to 21.5 mAh cm^-2.

SUBMITTER: Zhang H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8346473 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:Li-S batteries (LSBs) require a minimum 6 mAh cm-2 areal capacity to compete with the state-of-the-art lithium ion batteries (LIBs). However, this areal capacity is difficult to achieve due to a major technical issue-the shuttle effect. Nonpolar carbon materials limit the shuttle effect through physical confinement. However, the polar polysulfides (PSs) only provide weak intermolecular interactions (0.1-0.7 eV) with these nonpolar carbon materials. The physically encapsulated PSs inside the nonpolar carbon scaffold eventually diffuses out and starts shuttling. Chemically interactive hosts are more effective at interacting with the PSs due to high binding energies. Herein, a multifunctional separator coating of nitrogen-doped multilayer graphene (NGN) and -SO3 - containing Nafion (N-NGN) is used to mitigate PS shuttling and to produce a high areal capacity LSB. The Nafion is used as a binder instead of PVDF to provide an additional advantage of -SO3 - to chemically bind the PS. The motive of this research is to investigate the effect of highly electronegative N and -SO3 - (N-NGN) in comparison with the -OH, -COOH, and -SO3 - groups from a hydroxyl graphene and Nafion composite (N-OHGN) to mitigate PS shuttling in LSBs. The highly conductive doped graphene architecture (N-NGN) provides efficient pathways for both electrons and ions, which accelerates the electrochemical conversion at high sulfur loading. Moreover, the electron-rich pyridine N and -SO3 - show strong chemical affinity with the PS through polar-polar interactions, which is proven by the superior electrochemical performance and density functional theory calculations. Further, the N-NGN (5 h) produces a maximum areal capacity of 12.0 and 11.0 mAh cm-2, respectively, at 15 and 12 mg cm-2 sulfur loading. This areal capacity limit is significantly higher than the required areal capacity of LSBs for commercial application, which shows the significant strength of N-NGN as an excellent separator coating for LSBs.

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