Ultrafine Nd2O3 nanoparticles doped carbon aerogel to immobilize sulfur for high performance lithium-sulfur batteries

作者：Li, Xueliang^*; Zhang, Luyao; Ding, Zhongqiang; He, Yang

来源：Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2017, 799: 617-624.

DOI：10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.04.060

• Carbon aerogel
• Immobilization
• Nd2O3 nanoparticles
• Discharge capacity
• Lithium-sulfur batteries

The carbon aerogel (CA) uniformly doped neodymium oxide (Nd2O3) nanoparticle was synthesized by an effective in-situ method via acid catalyzing and used as the cathode matrix for lithium-sulfur batteries. The doped materials with interconnected pore structure of CA and evenly dispersed Nd2O3 offer crucial confinement role to anchor sulfur and suppress the loss of polysulfide ions for interrelate function of S/polysulfides by Nd2O3. The composited sulfur electrodes present high electrochemical performances and initial discharge capacities, especially, the Nd2-CA/S sample gains initial discharge capacity of 1327 inAh g at 0.2 C and remains at 1082 mAh g 1 after 100 cycles. Meanwhile, it still remains capacity of about 907 mAh g at 0.5 C after 300 cycles. The enhanced electrochemical performances can be ascribed to the crosslink mesoporous CA materials and well distributed neodymium oxide. Furthermore, the metal additive also takes promoting effect on redox reactions of the Li/S batteries presenting higher discharge voltages.

• 出版日期2017-8-15
• 单位合肥工业大学