Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage
Abstract
Lithium polysulfide batteries possess several favorable attributes including low cost and high energy density for grid energy storage. However, the precipitation of insoluble and irreversible sulfide species on the surface of carbon and lithium (called “dead” sulfide species) leads to continuous capacity degradation in high mass loading cells, which represents a great challenge. To address this problem, herein we propose a strategy to reactivate dead sulfide species by reacting them with sulfur powder with stirring and heating (70 °C) to recover the cell capacity, and further demonstrate a flow battery system based on the reactivation approach. As a result, ultrahigh mass loading (0.125 g cm–3, 2g sulfur in a single cell), high volumetric energy density (135 Wh L–1), good cycle life, and high single-cell capacity are achieved. The high volumetric energy density indicates its promising application for future grid energy storage.
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[2];
[2];
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Zhengzhou Univ. (China); Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1380122
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-17011
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723; PII: 537
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Batteries; Chemical engineering
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Jin, Yang, Zhou, Guangmin, Shi, Feifei, Zhuo, Denys, Zhao, Jie, Liu, Kai, Liu, Yayuan, Zu, Chenxi, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Rufan, Huang, Xuanyi, and Cui, Yi. Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00537-0.
Jin, Yang, Zhou, Guangmin, Shi, Feifei, Zhuo, Denys, Zhao, Jie, Liu, Kai, Liu, Yayuan, Zu, Chenxi, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Rufan, Huang, Xuanyi, & Cui, Yi. Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00537-0
Jin, Yang, Zhou, Guangmin, Shi, Feifei, Zhuo, Denys, Zhao, Jie, Liu, Kai, Liu, Yayuan, Zu, Chenxi, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Rufan, Huang, Xuanyi, and Cui, Yi. Wed .
"Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00537-0. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1380122.
@article{osti_1380122,
title = {Reactivation of dead sulfide species in lithium polysulfide flow battery for grid scale energy storage},
author = {Jin, Yang and Zhou, Guangmin and Shi, Feifei and Zhuo, Denys and Zhao, Jie and Liu, Kai and Liu, Yayuan and Zu, Chenxi and Chen, Wei and Zhang, Rufan and Huang, Xuanyi and Cui, Yi},
abstractNote = {Lithium polysulfide batteries possess several favorable attributes including low cost and high energy density for grid energy storage. However, the precipitation of insoluble and irreversible sulfide species on the surface of carbon and lithium (called “dead” sulfide species) leads to continuous capacity degradation in high mass loading cells, which represents a great challenge. To address this problem, herein we propose a strategy to reactivate dead sulfide species by reacting them with sulfur powder with stirring and heating (70 °C) to recover the cell capacity, and further demonstrate a flow battery system based on the reactivation approach. As a result, ultrahigh mass loading (0.125 g cm–3, 2g sulfur in a single cell), high volumetric energy density (135 Wh L–1), good cycle life, and high single-cell capacity are achieved. The high volumetric energy density indicates its promising application for future grid energy storage.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-00537-0},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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