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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 37, Pages 15387-15394Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja3052206
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- Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering through the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Laboratory Directed Research and Development [DE-AC02-76SF0051, DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) [KUS-l1-001-12]
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF)
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
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Li2S is a high-capacity cathode material for lithium metal-free rechargeable batteries. It has a theoretical capacity of 1166 mAh/g, which is nearly 1 order of magnitude higher than traditional metal oxides/phosphates cathodes. However, Li2S is usually considered to be electrochemically inactive due to its high electronic resistivity and low lithium-ion diffusivity. In this paper, we discover that a large potential barrier (similar to 1 V) exists at the beginning of charging for Li2S. By applying a higher voltage cutoff, this barrier can be overcome and Li2S becomes active. Moreover, this barrier does not appear again in the following cycling. Subsequent cycling shows that the material behaves similar to common sulfur cathodes with high energy efficiency. The initial discharge capacity is greater than 800 mAh/g for even 10 mu m Li2S particles. Moreover, after 10 cycles, the capacity is stabilized around 500-550 mAh/g with a capacity decay rate of only similar to 0.25% per cycle. The origin of the initial barrier is found to be the phase nucleation of polysulfides, but the amplitude of barrier is mainly due to two factors: (a) charge transfer directly between Li2S and electrolyte without polysulfide and (b) lithium-ion diffusion in Li2S. These results demonstrate a simple and scalable approach to utilizing Li2S as the cathode material for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with high specific energy.
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