X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of the Synthesis Process: Revealing the Interactions in Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Modified Sulfur–Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites
Abstract
In this paper, we have investigated the chemical bonding interaction of S in a CTAB (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CH3(CH2)15N+(CH3)3Br–)-modified sulfur–graphene oxide (S–GO) nanocomposite used as the cathode material for Li/S cells by S K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The results show that the introduction of CTAB to the S–GO nanocomposite and changes in the synthesis recipe including alteration of the S precursor ratios and the sequence of mixing ingredients lead to the formation of different S species. CTAB modifies the cathode materials through bonding with Na2Sx in the precursor solution, which is subsequently converted to C–S bonds during the heat treatment at 155 °C. Moreover, GO bonds with CTAB and acts as the nucleation center for S precipitation. Finally, all these interactions among S, CTAB, and GO help to immobilize the sulfur in the cathode and may be responsible for the enhanced cell cycle life of CTAB–S–GO nanocomposite-based Li/S cells.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Basic Research Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Hefei Science Center of CAS (China)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1379346
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 2013CB834605; U1232102; 21173200; 21473178; 2015SRG-HSC031; 2015HSC-UP022
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Ye, Yifan, Kawase, Ayako, Song, Min-Kyu, Feng, Bingmei, Liu, Yi-Sheng, Marcus, Matthew A., Feng, Jun, Fang, Haitao, Cairns, Elton J., Zhu, Junfa, and Guo, Jinghua. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of the Synthesis Process: Revealing the Interactions in Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Modified Sulfur–Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00751.
Ye, Yifan, Kawase, Ayako, Song, Min-Kyu, Feng, Bingmei, Liu, Yi-Sheng, Marcus, Matthew A., Feng, Jun, Fang, Haitao, Cairns, Elton J., Zhu, Junfa, & Guo, Jinghua. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of the Synthesis Process: Revealing the Interactions in Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Modified Sulfur–Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00751
Ye, Yifan, Kawase, Ayako, Song, Min-Kyu, Feng, Bingmei, Liu, Yi-Sheng, Marcus, Matthew A., Feng, Jun, Fang, Haitao, Cairns, Elton J., Zhu, Junfa, and Guo, Jinghua. 2016.
"X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of the Synthesis Process: Revealing the Interactions in Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Modified Sulfur–Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00751. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1379346.
@article{osti_1379346,
title = {X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Characterization of the Synthesis Process: Revealing the Interactions in Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Modified Sulfur–Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites},
author = {Ye, Yifan and Kawase, Ayako and Song, Min-Kyu and Feng, Bingmei and Liu, Yi-Sheng and Marcus, Matthew A. and Feng, Jun and Fang, Haitao and Cairns, Elton J. and Zhu, Junfa and Guo, Jinghua},
abstractNote = {In this paper, we have investigated the chemical bonding interaction of S in a CTAB (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CH3(CH2)15N+(CH3)3Br–)-modified sulfur–graphene oxide (S–GO) nanocomposite used as the cathode material for Li/S cells by S K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The results show that the introduction of CTAB to the S–GO nanocomposite and changes in the synthesis recipe including alteration of the S precursor ratios and the sequence of mixing ingredients lead to the formation of different S species. CTAB modifies the cathode materials through bonding with Na2Sx in the precursor solution, which is subsequently converted to C–S bonds during the heat treatment at 155 °C. Moreover, GO bonds with CTAB and acts as the nucleation center for S precipitation. Finally, all these interactions among S, CTAB, and GO help to immobilize the sulfur in the cathode and may be responsible for the enhanced cell cycle life of CTAB–S–GO nanocomposite-based Li/S cells.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00751},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1379346},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},
issn = {1932-7447},
number = 19,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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