Dense Graphene Monolith for High Volumetric Energy Density Li-S Batteries
Abstract
Despite the outstanding gravimetric performance of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, their practical volumetric energy density is normally lower than that of lithium-ion batteries, mainly due to the low density of nanostructured sulfur as well as the porous carbon hosts. Here, a novel approach is developed to fabricate high-density graphene bulk materials with ink-bottle-like mesopores by phosphoric acid (H3PO4) activation. These pores can effectively confine the polysulfides due to their unique structure with a wide body and narrow neck, which shows only a 0.05% capacity fade per cycle for 500 cycles (75% capacity retention) for accommodating polysulfides. With a density of 1.16 g cm-3, a hybrid cathode containing 54 wt% sulfur delivers a high volumetric capacity of 653 mA h cm-3. As a result, a device-level volumetric energy density as high as 408 W h L-1 is achieved with a cathode thickness of 100 mu m. This is a periodic yet practical advance to improve the volumetric performance of Li-S batteries from a device perspective. Furthermore, this work suggests a design principle for the real use Li-S batteries although there is a long way ahead to bridge the gap between Li-S batteries and Li-ion batteries in volumetric performance.
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- Tianjin Univ., Tianjin (China)
- Tsinghua Univ., Shenzhen (China)
- UNSW Australia (The Univ. of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW (Australia)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Tianjin Univ., Tianjin (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin (China)
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1466311
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- OSTI ID: 1425506
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
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- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; graphene monolith; ink-bottle-like pores; lithium-polysulfide batteries; polysulfides; volumetric performance
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Li, Huan, Tao, Ying, Zhang, Chen, Liu, Donghai, Luo, Jiayan, Fan, Weichao, Xu, Yue, Li, Youzhi, You, Conghui, Pan, Zheng -Ze, Ye, Mingchun, Chen, Zhengyu, Dong, Zhang, Wang, Da -Wei, Kang, Feiyu, Lu, Jun, and Yang, Quan -Hong. Dense Graphene Monolith for High Volumetric Energy Density Li-S Batteries. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201703438.
Li, Huan, Tao, Ying, Zhang, Chen, Liu, Donghai, Luo, Jiayan, Fan, Weichao, Xu, Yue, Li, Youzhi, You, Conghui, Pan, Zheng -Ze, Ye, Mingchun, Chen, Zhengyu, Dong, Zhang, Wang, Da -Wei, Kang, Feiyu, Lu, Jun, & Yang, Quan -Hong. Dense Graphene Monolith for High Volumetric Energy Density Li-S Batteries. United States. doi:10.1002/aenm.201703438.
Li, Huan, Tao, Ying, Zhang, Chen, Liu, Donghai, Luo, Jiayan, Fan, Weichao, Xu, Yue, Li, Youzhi, You, Conghui, Pan, Zheng -Ze, Ye, Mingchun, Chen, Zhengyu, Dong, Zhang, Wang, Da -Wei, Kang, Feiyu, Lu, Jun, and Yang, Quan -Hong. Mon .
"Dense Graphene Monolith for High Volumetric Energy Density Li-S Batteries". United States. doi:10.1002/aenm.201703438. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1466311.
@article{osti_1466311,
title = {Dense Graphene Monolith for High Volumetric Energy Density Li-S Batteries},
author = {Li, Huan and Tao, Ying and Zhang, Chen and Liu, Donghai and Luo, Jiayan and Fan, Weichao and Xu, Yue and Li, Youzhi and You, Conghui and Pan, Zheng -Ze and Ye, Mingchun and Chen, Zhengyu and Dong, Zhang and Wang, Da -Wei and Kang, Feiyu and Lu, Jun and Yang, Quan -Hong},
abstractNote = {Despite the outstanding gravimetric performance of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, their practical volumetric energy density is normally lower than that of lithium-ion batteries, mainly due to the low density of nanostructured sulfur as well as the porous carbon hosts. Here, a novel approach is developed to fabricate high-density graphene bulk materials with ink-bottle-like mesopores by phosphoric acid (H3PO4) activation. These pores can effectively confine the polysulfides due to their unique structure with a wide body and narrow neck, which shows only a 0.05% capacity fade per cycle for 500 cycles (75% capacity retention) for accommodating polysulfides. With a density of 1.16 g cm-3, a hybrid cathode containing 54 wt% sulfur delivers a high volumetric capacity of 653 mA h cm-3. As a result, a device-level volumetric energy density as high as 408 W h L-1 is achieved with a cathode thickness of 100 mu m. This is a periodic yet practical advance to improve the volumetric performance of Li-S batteries from a device perspective. Furthermore, this work suggests a design principle for the real use Li-S batteries although there is a long way ahead to bridge the gap between Li-S batteries and Li-ion batteries in volumetric performance.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201703438},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 18,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {3}
}
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Fig. 1 : Starting from a 3D graphene hydrogel, a commonly freeze-drying method results in a graphene monolith (GM) with hierarchical pores with low density (a); However, by H3PO4 activation and CEID method, a high density graphene monolith with large amounts of inkbottle-like pores (69%) was prepared (b); N2 adsorption-desorptionmore »
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