Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201701082
Keywords
close packed; high volumetric capacity; interconnected carbon nanospheres; Li-S batteries; monodisperse
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- Loughborough University
- EPSRC program [EP/M027066/1]
- EPSRC [EP/M027066/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M027066/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This study reports a Li-S battery cathode of high volumetric capacity enabled by novel micro-and mesostructuring. The cathode is based on monodisperse highly porous carbon nanospheres derived from a facile template-and surfactant-free method. At the mesoscale, the nanospheres structure into interconnected close-packed clusters of a few microns in extent, thus facilitating the fabrication of dense crack-free high areal sulfur loading (5 mg cm(-2)) cathodes with high electrical conductivity and low cathode impedance. A combination of the nitrogen doping (5 wt%), high porosity (2.3 cm(3) g(-1)), and surface area (2900 m(2) g(-1)) at the microscale enables high sulfur immobilization and utilization. The cathode delivers among the best reported volumetric capacity to date, above typical Li-ion areal capacity at 0.2 C over 200 cycles and low capacity fading of 0.1% per cycle at 0.5 C over 500 cycles. The compact cathode structure also ensures a low electrolyte requirement (6 mu L mg(-1)), which aids a low overall cell weight, and further, among the best gravimetric capacities published to date as well.
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