Advanced lithium–sulfur batteries enabled by a SnS2-Hollow carbon nanofibers Flexible Electrocatalytic Membrane

Chengbiao Wei; Yulan Han; Hao Liu; Ruihui Gan; Qiqi Li; Yali Wang; P. Hu; Chang Ma; Jingli Shi

doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2021.08.004

Advanced lithium–sulfur batteries enabled by a SnS₂-Hollow carbon nanofibers Flexible Electrocatalytic Membrane

Chengbiao Wei
, Yulan Han
, Hao Liu
, Ruihui Gan
, Qiqi Li
, Yali Wang
, P. Hu
, Chang Ma
, Jingli Shi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

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Abstract

As emerging energy storage systems, lithium-sulfur (Li–S) batteries have engaged extensive attention owing to the ideal energy density. The bottleneck of achieving the practical application on Li–S batteries is the shuttle effects of lithium polysulfide (LiPS) and the sluggish electrochemical conversion kinetics. Here, a flexible SnS₂-hollow carbon nanofibers (SnS₂@HCNF) membrane is designed as an interlayer to catalyze the conversion of LiPS. Hollow carbon nanofibers (HCNF) provide an electron passageway to accelerate the redox reaction of LiPS, while SnS₂ achieves rapid Li ions transport and an efficient catalytic route, promoting the decomposition of Li₂S. Owing to the synergistic effect of HCNF and SnS₂, the SnS₂@HCNF endow the Li–S batteries with high rate performance (694 mAh g⁻¹ at 3C) and low capacity fading rate (0.056 % per cycle during 500 cycles at 1C). The material and design strategy manifested in this work can pave a new way towards developing shuttle suppression interlayers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Carbon
Volume	184
Early online date	07 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2021.08.004
Publication status	Published - 30 Oct 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge financial support from the University of Science and Technology Development Fund Planning Project of Tianjin ( 2017KJ072 ) and the CAS Key Laboratory of Carbon Materials (No. KLCMKFJJ2011 ). We would like to thank the Analytical & Testing Center of Tiangong University for structured illumination microscopy work.

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© 2021 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords

Carbon nanofibers
Electrocatalytic membrane
Lithium-sulfur batteries
Synergistic effect

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Chemistry
General Materials Science

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