Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 9, Issue 50, Pages 43696-43703Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b14195
Keywords
CVD-graphene film; separator; interlayer; lithium-sulfur battery; polysulfide
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21373197, 11474265]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, USTC Startup
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK3430000003]
- iChEM
- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1508085QE103]
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Lithium-sulfur batteries are widely seen as a promising next-generation energy-storage system owing to their ultrahigh energy density. Although extensive research efforts have tackled poor cycling performance and self-discharge, battery stability has been improved at the expense of energy density. We have developed an interlayer consisting of two-layer chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown graphene supported by a conventional polypropylene (PP) separator. Unlike interlayers made of discrete nano-/microstructures that increase the thickness and weight of the separator, the CVD-graphene is an intact film with an area of 5 X 60 cm(2) and has a thickness of similar to 0.6 nm and areal density of similar to 0.15 mu g cm(-2), which are negligible to those of the PP separator. The CVD-graphene on PP separator is the thinnest and lightest interlayer to date and is able to suppress the shuttling of polysulfides and enhance the utilization of sulfur, leading to concurrently improved specific capacity, rate capability, and cycle stability and suppressed self-discharge when assembled with cathodes consisting of different sulfur/carbon composites and electrolytes either with or without LiNO3 additive.
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