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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 24, Issue 15, Pages 3768-3775Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704757
Keywords
batteries; mesoporous materials; multilayered barriers; doping; zeolites
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51672128]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2014CB239701]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20151468]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of NUAA [NJ20160104]
- Prospective Joint Research Project of Cooperative Innovation Fund of Jiangsu Province [BY2016003-13]
- Foundation of the Graduate Innovation Centre in NUAA [kfjj20150612]
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As one of the most promising energy storage devices, the practical application of lithium-sulfur batteries is limited by the low electrical conductivity of sulfur and the notable shuttle effects of sulfur-based electrodes. In this work, we describe a hierarchically porous N-doped zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8)-derived carbon nanosphere (N-ZDC) with an outer shell and an inner honeycomb-like interconnected nanosheet network as sulfur host material for high-performance and long-term lithium-sulfur batteries. The N-ZDC serves as multilayered barrier against the dissolution of lithium polysulfides. The porously inner interconnected carbon network of the N-ZDC facilitates the electron and ion transportation, ensures a high sulfur loading, and accommodates a volume expansion of the sulfur species. As a result, the optimized N-ZDC(4)/S electrodes displayed high initial specific capacities of 1343, 1182, and 698 mAhg(-1) at 0.5, 1, and 2 C, respectively, and an ultraslow capacity decay of only 0.048% per cycle at 2 C over 800 cycles. Even with a high sulfur loading of 3.1 mgcm(-2), N-ZDC(4)/S still delivered a reversible capacity of 956 mAhg(-1) and stabilizes at 544 mAhg(-1) after 500 cycles at 0.5 C, revealing the great potential of the novel carbon nanospheres for energy storage application.
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