Flexible sulfur wires (Flex-SWs)—A new versatile platform for lithium-sulfur batteries

Hanumantha, Prashanth Jampani; Gattu, Bharat; Shanthi, Pavithra Murugavel; Damle, Sameer Satish; Basson, Ziev; Bandi, Ramalinga; Datta, Moni Kanchan; Park, Sungkyoo; Kumta, Prashant N.

doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2016.06.130

Title: Flexible sulfur wires (Flex-SWs)—A new versatile platform for lithium-sulfur batteries

Journal Article · Fri Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Electrochimica Acta

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2016.06.130· OSTI ID:1429053

Hanumantha, Prashanth Jampani ^[1]; Gattu, Bharat ^[1]; Shanthi, Pavithra Murugavel ^[1]; Damle, Sameer Satish ^[1]; Basson, Ziev ^[2]; Bandi, Ramalinga ^[1]; Datta, Moni Kanchan ^[1];

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University of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (United States)

In this paper, a simple electrospinning methodology is described for generating novel fiber configurations of sulfur with the potential of yielding high performance sulfur electrodes for use in lithium-sulfur batteries. The unique fiber morphology derived by electrospinning has the capability of generating flexible sulfur yarns for the first time rendering them a highly attractive platform for small-scale mobile device applications such as textile-batteries. The electrospinning methodology reported herein also allows for the formation of a polymer-sulfur interface which acts as a physical barrier to liquid lithium electrolyte facilitating the reduction of polysulfide dissolution, a primary barrier to the progress of Li-S systems. Such flexible sulfur wire materials when converted into pellet sulfur electrodes, exhibit very stable capacities over 135 cycles with high areal capacities (~2.5 mAh cm^-2). Finally, coating the electrodes with an inorganic lithium ion conductor coating results in further improvement of cycling behavior with electrodes of ~650 mAh g^-1 capacity and an impressive low fade rate of ~0.003% fade cycle^-1 demonstrating the promise of this unique platform.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0006825; CBET-1511390

OSTI ID:: 1429053

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1397514

Journal Information:: Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 212; ISSN 0013-4686

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Country of Publication:: United States

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