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Multilevel structured carbon film as cathode host for Li-S batteries with superhigh-areal-capacity

Bin He, Wen-Cui Li, Zhi-Yuan Chen, Lei Shi, Yu Zhang, Ji-Li Xia, An-Hui Lu( )
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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The commercialization of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery could be accelerated by designing advanced sulfur cathode with high sulfur utilization and stable cycle life at a high sulfur loading. To allow the energy density of Li-S batteries comparable to that of commercial Li-ion batteries, the areal capacity of sulfur cathode should be above 4 mA·h·cm-2. In general, a high sulfur loading often causes rapid capacity fading by slowing electron/ion transport kinetics, catastrophic shuttle effect and even cracking the electrodes. To address this issue, herein, a multilevel structured carbon film is built by covering highly conductive CNTs and hollow carbon nanofiber together with carbon layer via chemical vapor deposition. The self-standing carbon film exhibits well-interweaved conductive network, hollow fibrous structure and abundant N, O co-doped active sites, which combine the merits of high electronic conductivity (1,200 S·m-1), high porosity and polar characteristic in one host. Benefiting from this attractive multilevel structure, the obtained sulfur cathode based on the carbon film host shows an ultra-high areal capacity of 8.9 mA·h·cm-2 at 0.2 C with outstanding cyclability over 60 cycles. This work shed light on designing advanced sulfur host for Li-S batteries with high areal capacity and high cycle stability, and might make a contribution to the commercialization of Li-S batteries.

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multilevel structurecarbon filmsulfur hostconductivityareal capacity

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 5,
May 2021
Pages 1273-1279
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-3102-4
Cite this article:
He B, Li W-C, Chen Z-Y, et al. Multilevel structured carbon film as cathode host for Li-S batteries with superhigh-areal-capacity. Nano Research, 2021, 14(5): 1273-1279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3102-4
Topics:
Carbon films Carbon nanofibers CathodesChemical vapor depositionIon batteriesLithiumLithium compoundsSulfur compounds

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Received: 04 August 2020
Revised: 07 September 2020
Accepted: 08 September 2020
Published: 29 December 2020
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