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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep18739
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- National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program) [2013CB127804]
- Chongqing Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Technologies of Clean Energies [cstc2011pt-sy90001]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [SWU 113079, XDJK2014C051, SWU 115027, XDJK2016C002]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (RFDP) [20130182120025]
- Young Core Teacher Program of the Municipal Higher Educational Institution of Chongqing
- Chongqing Natural Science Foundation [cstc2012jjA1137]
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A novel approach was developed to prepare porous carbon materials with an extremely high surface area of 2459.6 m(2)g(-1) by using Aspergillus flavus conidia as precursors. The porous carbon serves as a superior cathode material to anchor sulfur due to its uniform and tortuous morphology, enabling high capacity and good cycle lifetime in lithium sulfur-batteries. Under a current rate of 0.2 C, the carbon-sulfur composites with 56.7 wt% sulfur loading deliver an initial capacity of 1625 mAh g(-1), which is almost equal to the theoretical capacity of sulfur. The good performance may be ascribed to excellent electronic networks constructed by the high-surface-area carbon species. Moreover, the semi-closed architecture of derived carbons can effectively retard the polysulfides dissolution during charge/discharge, resulting in a capacity of 940 mAh g(-1) after 120 charge/discharge cycles.
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