A Four‐Electron Sulfur Electrode Hosting a Cu 2+ /Cu + Redox Charge Carrier
Abstract
Abstract The elemental sulfur electrode with Cu 2+ as the charge carrier gives a four‐electron sulfur electrode reaction through the sequential conversion of S↔CuS↔Cu 2 S. The Cu‐S redox‐ion electrode delivers a high specific capacity of 3044 mAh g −1 based on the sulfur mass or 609 mAh g −1 based on the mass of Cu 2 S, the completely discharged product, and displays an unprecedently high potential of sulfur/metal sulfide reduction at 0.5 V vs. SHE. The Cu‐S electrode also exhibits an extremely low extent of polarization of 0.05 V and an outstanding cycle number of 1200 cycles retaining 72 % of the initial capacity at 12.5 A g −1 . The remarkable utility of this Cu‐S cathode is further demonstrated in a hybrid cell that employs an Zn metal anode and an anion‐exchange membrane as the separator, which yields an average cell discharge voltage of 1.15 V, the half‐cell specific energy of 547 Wh kg −1 based on the mass of the Cu 2 S/carbon composite cathode, and stable cycling over 110 cycles.
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[1]
- Department of Chemistry Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon 97331-4003 USA
- X-ray Science Division Advanced Photon Sources Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois 60439 USA
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois 60439 USA
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- USDOE
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- 1560228
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- AC02-06CH11357
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- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Angewandte Chemie
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie Journal Volume: 131 Journal Issue: 36; Journal ID: ISSN 0044-8249
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
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Wu, Xianyong, Markir, Aaron, Ma, Lu, Xu, Yunkai, Jiang, Heng, Leonard, Daniel P., Shin, Woochul, Wu, Tianpin, Lu, Jun, and Ji, Xiulei. A Four‐Electron Sulfur Electrode Hosting a Cu 2+ /Cu + Redox Charge Carrier. Germany: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/ange.201905875.
Wu, Xianyong, Markir, Aaron, Ma, Lu, Xu, Yunkai, Jiang, Heng, Leonard, Daniel P., Shin, Woochul, Wu, Tianpin, Lu, Jun, & Ji, Xiulei. A Four‐Electron Sulfur Electrode Hosting a Cu 2+ /Cu + Redox Charge Carrier. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201905875
Wu, Xianyong, Markir, Aaron, Ma, Lu, Xu, Yunkai, Jiang, Heng, Leonard, Daniel P., Shin, Woochul, Wu, Tianpin, Lu, Jun, and Ji, Xiulei. Tue .
"A Four‐Electron Sulfur Electrode Hosting a Cu 2+ /Cu + Redox Charge Carrier". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201905875.
@article{osti_1560228,
title = {A Four‐Electron Sulfur Electrode Hosting a Cu 2+ /Cu + Redox Charge Carrier},
author = {Wu, Xianyong and Markir, Aaron and Ma, Lu and Xu, Yunkai and Jiang, Heng and Leonard, Daniel P. and Shin, Woochul and Wu, Tianpin and Lu, Jun and Ji, Xiulei},
abstractNote = {Abstract The elemental sulfur electrode with Cu 2+ as the charge carrier gives a four‐electron sulfur electrode reaction through the sequential conversion of S↔CuS↔Cu 2 S. The Cu‐S redox‐ion electrode delivers a high specific capacity of 3044 mAh g −1 based on the sulfur mass or 609 mAh g −1 based on the mass of Cu 2 S, the completely discharged product, and displays an unprecedently high potential of sulfur/metal sulfide reduction at 0.5 V vs. SHE. The Cu‐S electrode also exhibits an extremely low extent of polarization of 0.05 V and an outstanding cycle number of 1200 cycles retaining 72 % of the initial capacity at 12.5 A g −1 . The remarkable utility of this Cu‐S cathode is further demonstrated in a hybrid cell that employs an Zn metal anode and an anion‐exchange membrane as the separator, which yields an average cell discharge voltage of 1.15 V, the half‐cell specific energy of 547 Wh kg −1 based on the mass of the Cu 2 S/carbon composite cathode, and stable cycling over 110 cycles.},
doi = {10.1002/ange.201905875},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie},
number = 36,
volume = 131,
place = {Germany},
year = {Tue Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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