Polycation Binders: An Effective Approach toward Lithium Polysulfide Sequestration in Li–S Batteries
Abstract
Lithium polysulfide sequestration by polymeric binders in lithium-sulfur battery cathodes is investigated in this study. We prove polycations can effectively adsorb lithium polysulfides via Coulombic attraction between the positively charged backbone and the polysulfide anions. For the first time, we measure the simultaneous mass change of the sulfur cathodes with poly(diallyldimethylammonium triflate) (PDAT) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) binders during Iithiation-delithiation using electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM). The EQCM results demonstrate significantly higher mass gain with PDAT binder under identical conditions, providing direct evidence that PDAT is a superior binder. The advantage of polycation binders is also proved by charge-discharge cycling combined with ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. As a result, with the PDAT binder and minimized electrolyte/sulfur weight ratio, we further demonstrate electrodes with high sulfur loading achieving 4.2 mAh cm-2 areal capacity.
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- East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai (People's Republic of China); Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
- East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai (People's Republic of China)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1466403
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Energy Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE
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Su, Haiping, Fu, Chengyin, Zhao, Yifan, Long, Donghui, Ling, Licheng, Wong, Bryan M., Lu, Jun, and Guo, Juchen. Polycation Binders: An Effective Approach toward Lithium Polysulfide Sequestration in Li–S Batteries. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00779.
Su, Haiping, Fu, Chengyin, Zhao, Yifan, Long, Donghui, Ling, Licheng, Wong, Bryan M., Lu, Jun, & Guo, Juchen. Polycation Binders: An Effective Approach toward Lithium Polysulfide Sequestration in Li–S Batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00779
Su, Haiping, Fu, Chengyin, Zhao, Yifan, Long, Donghui, Ling, Licheng, Wong, Bryan M., Lu, Jun, and Guo, Juchen. Fri .
"Polycation Binders: An Effective Approach toward Lithium Polysulfide Sequestration in Li–S Batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00779. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1466403.
@article{osti_1466403,
title = {Polycation Binders: An Effective Approach toward Lithium Polysulfide Sequestration in Li–S Batteries},
author = {Su, Haiping and Fu, Chengyin and Zhao, Yifan and Long, Donghui and Ling, Licheng and Wong, Bryan M. and Lu, Jun and Guo, Juchen},
abstractNote = {Lithium polysulfide sequestration by polymeric binders in lithium-sulfur battery cathodes is investigated in this study. We prove polycations can effectively adsorb lithium polysulfides via Coulombic attraction between the positively charged backbone and the polysulfide anions. For the first time, we measure the simultaneous mass change of the sulfur cathodes with poly(diallyldimethylammonium triflate) (PDAT) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) binders during Iithiation-delithiation using electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM). The EQCM results demonstrate significantly higher mass gain with PDAT binder under identical conditions, providing direct evidence that PDAT is a superior binder. The advantage of polycation binders is also proved by charge-discharge cycling combined with ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. As a result, with the PDAT binder and minimized electrolyte/sulfur weight ratio, we further demonstrate electrodes with high sulfur loading achieving 4.2 mAh cm-2 areal capacity.},
doi = {10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00779},
journal = {ACS Energy Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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