• 文献标题:   Mesoporous N-doped graphene prepared by a soft-template method with high performance in Li-S batteries
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TANG TY, ZHANG T, LI W, HUANG XX, WANG XB, QIU HL, HOU YL
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOSCALE
  • ISSN:   2040-3364 EI 2040-3372
  • 通讯作者地址:   Peking Univ
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1039/c8nr09495k
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which have high theoretical capacity, are promising candidates for energy storage systems; however, several obstacles, including insulating nature and volumetric expansion of sulfur as well as shuttle effects of polysulfides, impede the commercialization of these batteries. Herein, we utilized mesoporous N-doped graphene (NGM) as a sulfur host, which was synthesized using a type of triblock copolymer, Pluronic F127 (PF127), as a soft template. PF127 not only acted as a spacer to prevent the graphene layers from restacking during the hydrothermal reaction, but also resulted in the formation of high-density wrinkles on the surface of the graphene sheets after annealing. The crumpled NGM with a nitrogen doping content of 4.80 at% had the high specific area and total pore volume of up to 958.72 m(2) g(-1) and 2.39 cm(3) g(-1), respectively, providing space for the accommodation and uniform distribution of sulfur in the cathode. Therefore, the sulfur content was increased to 87.2 wt% in the graphene sulfur composite, achieving the discharge capacity of 492.2 mA h g(TE)(-1) at 1.08 A g(TE)(-1) with a low capacity decay rate of 0.12% per cycle after 400 cycles. Thus, this study provides an effective strategy for enhancing the specific surface area and pore volume of graphene to develop Li-S batteries with high performance.