Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/admi.201701659
Keywords
carbon comb; chemisorption; hydrothermal carbonization; lithium-sulfur batteries; nitrogen doping
Funding
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- Changjiang Scholars Program [T2011170]
- Six Talent Peaks Project of Jiangsu Province [XNYCXTD-001]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China [BK20170974]
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [21576135]
- Program for Jiangsu Specially Appointed Professors
- Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [BK20170043]
- Youth Fund in Jiangsu Province [BK20150945]
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Host materials that can provide both a strong absorbability of soluble intermediate polysulfides and a high electronic conductivity are in high demand to realize practical applications of Li-S batteries. Here, the rational design of an N-doped carbon comb (NCC) as a new type of sulfur host for Li-S batteries, delivering a favorable performance, particularly a good cycling stability and rate capability, is reported. A novel dodecylamine micelle-induced self-assembling method is first proposed for constructing the NCC host which is built from close-packed hollow submicron carbon spheres. The interconnected carbon frameworks create good electrical conductive pathways. In addition, the high porosity and the N doping of the NCC host effectively suppress sulfur losses during cycling through synergistic physisorption and chemisorption effects. As a result, cathodes with 71 wt% of sulfur deposited in the NCC host possess superior capacities of 1090 and 553 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 and 2 C, respectively. After 300 cycles at 1 C, a reversible capacity of 562 mAh g(-1) is retained. Even at a high sulfur loading of 83 wt%, favorable performance is realized.
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