Chemical Immobilization and Conversion of Active Polysulfides Directly by Copper Current Collector: A New Approach to Enabling Stable Room-Temperature Li-S and Na-S Batteries
Abstract
Abstract Room‐temperature Li/Na‐S batteries are promising energy storage solutions, but unfortunately suffer from serious cycling problems rooted in their polysulfide intermediates. The conventional strategy to tackle this issue is to design host materials for trapping polysulfides via weak physical confinement and interfacial chemical interactions. Even though beneficial, their capability for the polysulfide immobilization is still limited. Herein, the unique sulfiphilic nature of metallic Cu is revisited. Upon the exposure to polysulfide in aqueous or aprotic solution, the surface sulfidization rapidly takes place, resulting in the formation of Cu 2 S nanoflake arrays with tunable texture. When the sulfidized Cu current collector is directly used as the sulfur‐equivalent cathode, it enables high‐performance Li/Na‐S batteries at room temperature with reasonable high sulfur loading. Specific capacities up to ≈1200 mAh g −1 for Li‐S and ≈400 mAh g −1 for Na‐S are measured when normalized to the amount of equivalent sulfur, and can be readily sustained for >1000 cycles.
- Authors:
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- Soochow Univ., Suzhou (China)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1480523
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1437316
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; DE‐AC02‐06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Li-S batteries; Na-S batteries; chemical immobilization of polysulfide; sulfiphilic Cu foam; sulfur-equivalent cathodes
Citation Formats
Li, Peirong, Ma, Lu, Wu, Tianpin, Ye, Hualin, Zhou, Junhua, Zhao, Feipeng, Han, Na, Wang, Yeyun, Wu, Yunling, Li, Yanguang, and Lu, Jun. Chemical Immobilization and Conversion of Active Polysulfides Directly by Copper Current Collector: A New Approach to Enabling Stable Room-Temperature Li-S and Na-S Batteries. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201800624.
Li, Peirong, Ma, Lu, Wu, Tianpin, Ye, Hualin, Zhou, Junhua, Zhao, Feipeng, Han, Na, Wang, Yeyun, Wu, Yunling, Li, Yanguang, & Lu, Jun. Chemical Immobilization and Conversion of Active Polysulfides Directly by Copper Current Collector: A New Approach to Enabling Stable Room-Temperature Li-S and Na-S Batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201800624
Li, Peirong, Ma, Lu, Wu, Tianpin, Ye, Hualin, Zhou, Junhua, Zhao, Feipeng, Han, Na, Wang, Yeyun, Wu, Yunling, Li, Yanguang, and Lu, Jun. Wed .
"Chemical Immobilization and Conversion of Active Polysulfides Directly by Copper Current Collector: A New Approach to Enabling Stable Room-Temperature Li-S and Na-S Batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201800624. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1480523.
@article{osti_1480523,
title = {Chemical Immobilization and Conversion of Active Polysulfides Directly by Copper Current Collector: A New Approach to Enabling Stable Room-Temperature Li-S and Na-S Batteries},
author = {Li, Peirong and Ma, Lu and Wu, Tianpin and Ye, Hualin and Zhou, Junhua and Zhao, Feipeng and Han, Na and Wang, Yeyun and Wu, Yunling and Li, Yanguang and Lu, Jun},
abstractNote = {Abstract Room‐temperature Li/Na‐S batteries are promising energy storage solutions, but unfortunately suffer from serious cycling problems rooted in their polysulfide intermediates. The conventional strategy to tackle this issue is to design host materials for trapping polysulfides via weak physical confinement and interfacial chemical interactions. Even though beneficial, their capability for the polysulfide immobilization is still limited. Herein, the unique sulfiphilic nature of metallic Cu is revisited. Upon the exposure to polysulfide in aqueous or aprotic solution, the surface sulfidization rapidly takes place, resulting in the formation of Cu 2 S nanoflake arrays with tunable texture. When the sulfidized Cu current collector is directly used as the sulfur‐equivalent cathode, it enables high‐performance Li/Na‐S batteries at room temperature with reasonable high sulfur loading. Specific capacities up to ≈1200 mAh g −1 for Li‐S and ≈400 mAh g −1 for Na‐S are measured when normalized to the amount of equivalent sulfur, and can be readily sustained for >1000 cycles.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201800624},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 22,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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