Journal
NANO RESEARCH
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 2673-2682Publisher
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2909-3
Keywords
sulfiphilic VSe2; lithium-sulfur batteries; nucleation and growth of Li2S; polysulfide electrocatalysis; shuttle effect
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21871164, 21803036, U1764258]
- Taishan Scholar Project Foundation of Shandong Province [ts201511004, ts20190908]
- National Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2019MB024]
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Lithium-sulfur batteries have been attracting considerable research attention due to their high energy densities and low costs. However, one of their main challenges is the undesired shuttling of polysulfides, causing rapid capacity degradation. Herein, we report the first example of sulfiphilic VSe2 ultrafine nanocrystals immobilized on nitrogen-doped graphene to modify the battery separator for alleviating the shuttling problem. VSe2 nanocrystals provide numerous active sites for chemisorption of polysulfides as well as benefit the nucleation and growth of Li2S. Furthermore, the kinetic reactions are accelerated which is confirmed by higher exchange current density and higher lithium ion diffusion coefficient. And the first-principles calculations further show that the exposed sulfiphilic planes of VSe2 boost the redox of Li2S. When used as separators within the lithium sulfur batteries, the cell indicates greatly enhanced electrochemical performances with excellent long cycling stability and exceptional rate capability up to 8 C. Moreover, it delivers a higher areal capacity of 4.04 mAh.cm(-2) as well as superior cycling stability with sulfur areal loading up to 6.1 mg.cm(-2). The present strategy can encourage us in engineering novel multifunctional separators for energy-storage devices.
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