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Double-layered hollow carbon sphere with large interlayer space combined with Co-SnS cat. as efficient sulfur hosts for Li-S batteries

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The low sulfur utilization and the serious shuttle effect of polysulfides severely hamper practical application of Li-S batteries. Herein, sulfur cathodes with the multi-functional structures, featured with double-layered hollow carbon sphere with up to 50 nm interlayer space (DLHC-50) in situ grown Co-SnS catalytic layer is designed and synthesized for lithium sulfur batteries. Co-SnS/DLHC-50 can encapsulate 72% sulfur, higher than 63% for Co-SnS/DLHC-20 due to the large interlayer spaces of DLHC-50. Meanwhile, polysulfides are also effectively restricted via physical entrapment from DLHC-50 as well as chemical binding between Co-SnS and polysulfides. Benefiting from the well-constructed host framework, Co-SnS/DLHC-50 @S shows higher specific capacity/capacity retention of 760.4 mA h g?1/72.9% after 500 cycles at 0.5 C, than that of 546.5 mA h g?1/62.2% and 668.9 mA h g?1/62.2%, for DLHC-50 @S, and Co-SnS/DLHC-20 @S, respectively. In addition, the strategy can be also extended to prepare other metal oxides (sulfides)/DLHC-50 for wide applications. Therefore, this work demonstrates a promising route to combat some bottlenecks such as low sulfur utilization, and the shuttle effect of polysulfides for Li-S batteries.

Co-SnS catalysisDouble-layered hollow carbon sphereHigh sulfur utilizationImproved cycling stabilityLarge interlayer space

Zhong H.、Zhang L.

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Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy Guangdong Key Laboratory of New and Renewable Energy Research and Development Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion Chinese Academy of Sciences

2022

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

EISCI
ISSN:0925-8388
年,卷(期):2022.901
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