Soybean-derived hierarchical porous carbon with large sulfur loading and sulfur content for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

作者：Ren, Guofeng; Li, Shiqi; Fan, Zhao-Xia; Warzywoda, Juliusz; Fan, Zhaoyang^*

来源：Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4(42): 16507-16515.

DOI：10.1039/c6ta07446d

• NITROGEN-DOPED GRAPHENE
• ORIENTED GRAPHENE
• CATHODE MATERIAL
• CYCLE-LIFE
• POLYSULFIDES
• COMPOSITE
• MECHANISMS
• ELECTRODE
• CELLS

An hierarchical porous carbon nanostructure with intrinsic O- and N-dopants and an ultrahigh specific surface area of 1500 m(2) g(-1) is reported towards the goal of designing and achieving a better sulfur electrode for lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) that can provide both large sulfur loading and large sulfur content and are based on a facile fabrication process. This nanostructure was derived from crude soybeans in a facile pyrolysis process. Using it as a sulfur host, the S/C active composite with 80% sulfur content was made. Cells with different sulfur loadings were investigated and were found to demonstrate large capacity, high coulombic and energy efficiencies, and high cycling stability. In particular, for a sulfur loading of 5.5 mg cm(-2) and a sulfur content of 80%, cells displayed a specific capacity of ca. 950 mA h g(-1), which corresponds to an areal capacity of 5.2 mA h cm(-2). Such a performance moves LSB technology closer to practical applications.

• 出版日期2016
• 单位北京理工大学