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Enhanced polysulfide redox kinetics by niobium oxynitrides via in-situ adsorptive and catalytic effect in wide temperature range

Benben Wei1,2,§, Chaoqun Shang1,§( ), Qiao Cu3, Le Hu4, Xuelian Fu3, Guofu Zhou3, Xin Wang3( )
School of Materials Science and Engineering & Hubei Key Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die and Mold Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

§ Benben Wei and Chaoqun Shang contributed equally to this work.

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The employment of niobium oxynitrides highly dispersed on graphene (NbON-G) can effectively promote the conversion of absorbed lithium polysulfides and guarantee potential performance of Li-S batteries in wide temperature range.

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The development of Li-S batteries (LSBs) is hindered by the low utilization of S species and sluggish redox reaction kinetics. Polar metal oxides always possess high adsorption to polar S species, while conductive metal nitrides show fast electron transport and ensure fast redox reaction of S species. The combination merits of metal oxides and metal nitrides in one provide an effective strategy to improve the electrochemical performance of LSBs. In this work, defect design of niobium oxynitrides highly dispersed on graphene (NbON-G) is evaluated as effective trapper and catalyst for S species. Owning to the effective structural merits including enriched active sites, alleviated volume variation, defect modulated electronic property, and in-situ chemisorption and catalytic conversion of soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs), the LSBs with NbON-G modified separator show remarkably enhanced performance compared to NbN-G and Nb2O5-G. Surprisingly, even at low temperature of −40 °C, the LSBs with NbON-G can operate for 1,000 cycles with 0.04% capacity decay per cycle (Rate: 2 C).

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lithium polysulfidesLi-S batteriesniobium oxynitridescatalystlow temperature

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 7,
July 2022
Pages 6200-6207
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4295-5
Cite this article:
Wei B, Shang C, Cu Q, et al. Enhanced polysulfide redox kinetics by niobium oxynitrides via in-situ adsorptive and catalytic effect in wide temperature range. Nano Research, 2022, 15(7): 6200-6207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4295-5
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Lithium sulfur batteries

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Received: 31 December 2021
Revised: 28 February 2022
Accepted: 06 March 2022
Published: 20 April 2022
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