Journal
JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
Volume 68, Issue -, Pages 624-636Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2021.12.036
Keywords
3D ordered hierarchically porous carbon (OHPC); Shuttle effect; Cyclability; High rate capability; The generalized Murrays law; Li-Se batteries
Funding
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Universite de Namur, Belgium
- National Postdoctoral Program [2020M672782]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1663225]
- Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to UniversitiesNational 111 Project from the Ministry of Science and Technology
- Ministry of Education of China [B20002]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFA0202602]
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Developing host materials with high specific surface area, good electron conductivity, and fast ion transportation is crucial for high performance Li-Se batteries. In this study, a series of 3D ordered hierarchically porous carbon (3D OHPC) materials with micro/meso/macropores were designed and synthesized. The optimized 3D Se/OHPC cathode exhibited excellent electrochemical performance, attributed to the improved ion and electron conductivities provided by the hierarchical porous structure.
Developing host materials with high specific surface area, good electron conductivity, and fast ion transportation channel is critical for high performance lithium-selenium (Li-Se) batteries. Herein, a series of three dimensional ordered hierarchically porous carbon (3D OHPC) materials with micro/meso/macropores are designed and synthesized for Li-Se battery. The porous structure is tuned by following the concept of the generalized Murray's law to facilitate the mass diffusion and reduce ion transport resistance. The optimized 3D Se/OHPC cathode exhibits a very high 2nd discharge capacity of 651 mAh/g and retains 361 mAh/g after 200 cycles at 0.2 C. Even at a high current rate of 5 C, the battery still shows a discharge capacity as high as 155 mAh/g. The improved electrochemical performance is attributed to the synergy effect of the interconnected and well-designed micro, meso and macroporosity while shortened ions diffusion pathways of such Murray materials accelerate its ionic and electronic conductivities leading to the enhanced electrochemical reaction. The diffusivity coefficient in Se/OHPC can reach a very high value of 1.3 x 10(-11) cm(2)/s, much higher than those in single pore size carbon hosts. Their effective volume expansion accommodation capability and reduced dissolution of polyselenides ensure the high stability of the battery. This work, for the first time, established the clear relationship between textural properties of cathode materials and their performance and demonstrates that the concept of the generalized Murray's law can be used as efficient guidance for the rational design and synthesis of advanced hierarchically porous materials and the great potential of 3D OHPC materials as a practical high performance cathode material for Li-Se batteries. (C) 2021 Science Press and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. and Science Press. All rights reserved.
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