A Lithium-Sulfur Battery using a 2D Current Collector Architecture with a Large-Sized Sulfur Host Operated under High Areal Loading and Low E/S Ratio

Li, Matthew; Zhang, Yining; Bai, Zhengyu; Liu, Wen Wen; Liu, Tongchao; Gim, Jihyeon; Jiang, Gaopeng; Yuan, Yifei; Luo, Dan; Feng, Kun; Yassar, Reza S.; Wang, Xiaolei; Chen, Zhongwei; Lu, Jun

doi:10.1002/adma.201804271

Title: A Lithium-Sulfur Battery using a 2D Current Collector Architecture with a Large-Sized Sulfur Host Operated under High Areal Loading and Low E/S Ratio

Journal Article · 03 October 2018 · Advanced Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804271 · OSTI ID:1493731

Li, Matthew ^[1]; Zhang, Yining ^[2]; Bai, Zhengyu ^[3]; Liu, Wen Wen ^[2]; Liu, Tongchao ^[4]; Gim, Jihyeon ^[4]; Jiang, Gaopeng ^[2]; Yuan, Yifei ^[5]; Luo, Dan ^[2]; Feng, Kun ^[2]; Yassar, Reza S. ^[6]; Wang, Xiaolei ^[7]; Chen, Zhongwei ^[2];

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Henan Normal University, Xinxiang (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)

While backless freestanding 3-D electrode architectures for high loading sulfur batteries have flourished in the recent years, the more traditional and industrially turnkey 2-D architecture have not received the same amount of attention. In this paper, we report a spray dried sulfur composite with large intrinsic internal pores, ensuring adequate local electrolyte availability. This material offered good performance with a electrolyte content of 7 µL mg^-1 at high areal loadings (5-8 mg cm^-2), while also offering the first reported 2.8 µL mg^-1 (8 mg cm^-2) to enter into the 2nd plateau of discharge and continue to operate for 20 cycles. Furthermore, we provide evidence that the high frequency semi-circle (i.e. interfacial resistance) is mainly responsible for the often observed bypassing of the 2nd plateau in lean electrolyte discharges.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V). Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1493731

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Journal Issue: 46 Vol. 30; ISSN 0935-9648

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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