Polysulfides capture-copper additive for long cycle life lithium sulfur batteries

Jia, Lei; Wu, Tianpin; Lu, Jun; Ma, Lu; Zhu, Wentao; Qiu, Xinping

doi:10.1021/acsami.6b10366

Polysulfides capture-copper additive for long cycle life lithium sulfur batteries

Journal Article · Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b10366· OSTI ID:1364637

Jia, Lei ^[1]; Wu, Tianpin ^[2]; Lu, Jun ^[2]; Ma, Lu ^[2]; Zhu, Wentao ^[1]; Qiu, Xinping ^[1]

Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Copper powder was introduced into the lithium sulfur battery system to capture intermediate polysulfides and Cu_xS (x = 1 or 2) species was generated depending on the chain length of polysulfides. This phenomenon was verified by X-ray absorption near edge structure technique. The results indicated that copper can be oxidized to CuS by Li₂S_x (x ≥ 6), and a mixture of Cu₂S and CuS was obtained when x ranges from 3 to 6. While Cu₂S is eventually formed in the presence of Li₂S₃. After several cycles activation, the polysulfide-shuttle effect and self-discharge phenomenon which hinder the application of lithium sulfur batteries are found nearly eliminated Further experiments demonstrated that in the case of Cu₂S generation, a high specific sulfur capacity of 1300 mAh g^–1 could be delivered, corresponding to 77.6% sulfur utilization, while the Coulombic efficiency approximates around 100%. As a result, self-discharge experiment further demonstrated that polysulfides almost disappear in the electrolyte, which verified the polysulfide-capture capability of copper.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1364637

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal Issue: 44 Vol. 8; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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