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Title: Safe and Durable High-Temperature Lithium–Sulfur Batteries via Molecular Layer Deposited Coating

Abstract

Here, Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery is a promising high energy storage candidate in electric vehicles. However, the commonly employed ether based electrolyte does not enable to realize safe high-temperature Li-S batteries due to the low boiling and flash temperatures. Traditional carbonate based electrolyte obtains safe physical properties at high temperature but does not complete reversible electrochemical reaction for most Li-S batteries. Here we realize safe high temperature Li-S batteries on universal carbon-sulfur electrodes by molecular layer deposited (MLD) alucone coating. Sulfur cathodes with MLD coating complete the reversible electrochemical process in carbonate electrolyte and exhibit a safe and ultrastable cycle life at high temperature, which promise practicable Li-S batteries for electric vehicles and other large-scale energy storage systems.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [1];  [3];  [1];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada)
  2. Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, SK (Canada)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1415959
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; carbonate based electrolyte; ether based electrolyte; high temperature; Lithium−sulfur batteries; MLD; molecular layer deposition

Citation Formats

Li, Xia, Lushington, Andrew, Sun, Qian, Xiao, Wei, Liu, Jian, Wang, Biqiong, Ye, Yifan, Nie, Kaiqi, Hu, Yongfeng, Xiao, Qunfeng, Li, Ruying, Guo, Jinghua, Sham, Tsun -Kong, and Sun, Xueliang. Safe and Durable High-Temperature Lithium–Sulfur Batteries via Molecular Layer Deposited Coating. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00577.
Li, Xia, Lushington, Andrew, Sun, Qian, Xiao, Wei, Liu, Jian, Wang, Biqiong, Ye, Yifan, Nie, Kaiqi, Hu, Yongfeng, Xiao, Qunfeng, Li, Ruying, Guo, Jinghua, Sham, Tsun -Kong, & Sun, Xueliang. Safe and Durable High-Temperature Lithium–Sulfur Batteries via Molecular Layer Deposited Coating. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00577
Li, Xia, Lushington, Andrew, Sun, Qian, Xiao, Wei, Liu, Jian, Wang, Biqiong, Ye, Yifan, Nie, Kaiqi, Hu, Yongfeng, Xiao, Qunfeng, Li, Ruying, Guo, Jinghua, Sham, Tsun -Kong, and Sun, Xueliang. Fri . "Safe and Durable High-Temperature Lithium–Sulfur Batteries via Molecular Layer Deposited Coating". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00577. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1415959.
@article{osti_1415959,
title = {Safe and Durable High-Temperature Lithium–Sulfur Batteries via Molecular Layer Deposited Coating},
author = {Li, Xia and Lushington, Andrew and Sun, Qian and Xiao, Wei and Liu, Jian and Wang, Biqiong and Ye, Yifan and Nie, Kaiqi and Hu, Yongfeng and Xiao, Qunfeng and Li, Ruying and Guo, Jinghua and Sham, Tsun -Kong and Sun, Xueliang},
abstractNote = {Here, Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery is a promising high energy storage candidate in electric vehicles. However, the commonly employed ether based electrolyte does not enable to realize safe high-temperature Li-S batteries due to the low boiling and flash temperatures. Traditional carbonate based electrolyte obtains safe physical properties at high temperature but does not complete reversible electrochemical reaction for most Li-S batteries. Here we realize safe high temperature Li-S batteries on universal carbon-sulfur electrodes by molecular layer deposited (MLD) alucone coating. Sulfur cathodes with MLD coating complete the reversible electrochemical process in carbonate electrolyte and exhibit a safe and ultrastable cycle life at high temperature, which promise practicable Li-S batteries for electric vehicles and other large-scale energy storage systems.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b00577},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 16,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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