Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 12597-12611Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07319
Keywords
lithium-ion battery; lithiation mechanism; yolk@shell composite anode; in situ experiments; multiple computational modeling
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB0905400]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21703185, 61471307, 51872098]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Xiamen University) [20720170042]
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High-performance lithium-ion batteries are commonly built with heterogeneous composite electrodes that combine multiple active components for serving various electrochemical and structural functions. Engineering these heterogeneous composite electrodes toward drastically improved battery performance is hinged on a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of multiple active components and their synergy or trade-off effects. Herein, we report a rational design, fabrication, and understanding of yolk@shell Bi2S3@N-doped mesoporous carbon (C) composite anode, consisting of a Bi2S3 nanowire (NW) core within a hollow space surrounded by a thin shell of N-doped mesoporous C. This composite anode exhibits desirable rate performance and long cycle stability (700 cycles, 501 mAhg(-1) at 1.0 Ag-1, 85% capacity retention). By in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction, and NMR experiments and computational modeling, we elucidate the dominant mechanisms of the phase transformation, structural evolution, and lithiation kinetics of the Bi2S3 NWs anode. Our combined in situ TEM experiments and finite element simulations reveal that the hollow space between the Bi2S3 NWs core and carbon shell can effectively accommodate the lithiation-induced expansion of Bi2S3 NWs without cracking C shells. This work demonstrates an effective strategy of engineering the yolk@shell-architectured anodes and also sheds light onto harnessing the complex multistep reactions in metal sulfides to enable high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
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