Journal
ADVANCED SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/advs.201903693
Keywords
catalytic conversion; cathodes; heavy metal oxides; lithium-sulfur batteries; volumetric energy density
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFB0100200]
- National Natural Science Foundation [21935006, 21421001]
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For high-energy lithium-sulfur batteries, the poor volumetric energy density is a bottleneck as compared with lithium-ion batteries, due to the low density of both the sulfur active material and sulfur host. Herein, in order to enhance the volumetric energy density of sulfur cathode, a universal approach is proposed to fabricate a compact sulfur cathode with dense materials as sulfur host, instead of the old-fashioned lightweight carbon nanomaterials. Based on this strategy, heavy lanthanum strontium manganese oxide (La0.8Sr0.2MnO3), with a high theoretical density of up to 6.5 g cm(-3), is introduced as sulfur host. Meanwhile, the La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 host also acts as an efficient electrocatalyst to accelerate the diffusion, adsorption, and redox dynamics of lithium polysulfides in the charge-discharge processes. As a result, such S/La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 cathode presents high gravimetric/volumetric capacity and outstanding cycling stability. Moreover, an ultra-high volumetric energy density of 2727 Wh L--cathode(-1) is achieved based on the densification effect with higher density (1.69 g cm(-3)), which is competitive to the Ni-rich oxide cathode (1800-2160 Wh L-1) of lithium-ion batteries. The current study opens up a path for constructing high volumetric capacity sulfur cathode with heavy and catalytic host toward practical applications of lithium-sulfur batteries.
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