Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere - sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S battery
Abstract
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery is a promising energy storage system due to its high energy density, cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness of sulfur. However, there are still a number of challenges, such as low Coulombic efficiency and poor long-term cycling stability, impeding the commercialization of Li-S battery. The electrochemical performance of Li-S battery is closely related with the interfacial reactions occurring between hosting substrate and active sulfur species which are poorly conducting at fully oxidized and reduced states. Here, we correlate the relationship between the performance and interfacial reactions in the Li-S battery system, using a hollow carbon nanosphere (HCNS) with highly graphitic character as hosting substrate for sulfur. With an appropriate amount of sulfur loading, HCNS/S composite exhibits excellent electrochemical performance because of the fast interfacial reactions between HCNS and the polysulfides. However, further increase of sulfur loading leads to increased formation of highly resistive insoluble reaction products (Li2S2/Li2S) which limits the reversibility of the interfacial reactions and results in poor electrochemical performance. In conclusion, these findings demonstrate the importance of the interfacial reaction reversibility in the whole electrode system on achieving high capacity and long cycle life of sulfur cathode for Li-S batteries.
- Authors:
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- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1221498
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-107585
Journal ID: ISSN 2296-598X; 48146; VT1201000
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Energy Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2296-598X
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory; sulfur composite; interfacial reaction; sulfur utilization; cycling stability; rate capability; Li-S battery
Citation Formats
Zheng, Jianming, Yan, Pengfei, Gu, Meng, Wagner, Michael J., Hays, Kevin A., Chen, Junzheng, Li, Xiaohong S., Wang, Chong M., Zhang, Ji -Guang, Liu, Jun, and Xiao, Jie. Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere - sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S battery. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.3389/fenrg.2015.00025.
Zheng, Jianming, Yan, Pengfei, Gu, Meng, Wagner, Michael J., Hays, Kevin A., Chen, Junzheng, Li, Xiaohong S., Wang, Chong M., Zhang, Ji -Guang, Liu, Jun, & Xiao, Jie. Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere - sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S battery. United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2015.00025
Zheng, Jianming, Yan, Pengfei, Gu, Meng, Wagner, Michael J., Hays, Kevin A., Chen, Junzheng, Li, Xiaohong S., Wang, Chong M., Zhang, Ji -Guang, Liu, Jun, and Xiao, Jie. Tue .
"Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere - sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S battery". United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2015.00025. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1221498.
@article{osti_1221498,
title = {Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere - sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S battery},
author = {Zheng, Jianming and Yan, Pengfei and Gu, Meng and Wagner, Michael J. and Hays, Kevin A. and Chen, Junzheng and Li, Xiaohong S. and Wang, Chong M. and Zhang, Ji -Guang and Liu, Jun and Xiao, Jie},
abstractNote = {Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery is a promising energy storage system due to its high energy density, cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness of sulfur. However, there are still a number of challenges, such as low Coulombic efficiency and poor long-term cycling stability, impeding the commercialization of Li-S battery. The electrochemical performance of Li-S battery is closely related with the interfacial reactions occurring between hosting substrate and active sulfur species which are poorly conducting at fully oxidized and reduced states. Here, we correlate the relationship between the performance and interfacial reactions in the Li-S battery system, using a hollow carbon nanosphere (HCNS) with highly graphitic character as hosting substrate for sulfur. With an appropriate amount of sulfur loading, HCNS/S composite exhibits excellent electrochemical performance because of the fast interfacial reactions between HCNS and the polysulfides. However, further increase of sulfur loading leads to increased formation of highly resistive insoluble reaction products (Li2S2/Li2S) which limits the reversibility of the interfacial reactions and results in poor electrochemical performance. In conclusion, these findings demonstrate the importance of the interfacial reaction reversibility in the whole electrode system on achieving high capacity and long cycle life of sulfur cathode for Li-S batteries.},
doi = {10.3389/fenrg.2015.00025},
journal = {Frontiers in Energy Research},
number = ,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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