• 文献标题:   Iron Carbide Dispersed on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene-like Carbon Nanosheets for Fast Conversion of Polysulfides in Li-S Batteries
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONG CL, LI ZH, LI MZ, HUANG S, HONG XJ, SI LP, ZHANG M, CAI YP
  • 作者关键词:   lis battery, iron carbide, catalytic conversion, separator coating, shuttle effect
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   2574-0970
  • 通讯作者地址:   South China Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsanm.0c01689
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery has drawn tremendous interest because of its superior theoretical specific capacity, while the shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides (LPSs) has greatly hindered its application. Herein, MOF-derived Fe3C compounded with the nitrogen-doped graphene-like carbon nanosheet, Fe3C/NG, was prepared and applied to realize a stable long cycle of Li-S batteries. With the catalytic and conductive Fe3C nanoparticles distributed on the conductive nitrogen-doped graphene-like carbon nanosheets, the Fe3C/NG composite could quickly adsorb and catalyze LPSs under a high current density or large sulfur loading, thus achieving high rate performance for the cell. Even at a current density of 6 C, the Li-S cell with the Fe3C/NG-coated separator can still have a specific capacity of 954.5 mA h/g at the first cycle, and maintain 439.9 mA h/g after 500 stable cycles. Meanwhile, when the cell has a high sulfur loading of 6.5 mg/cm(2), a stable specific capacity of 6.0 mA h/cm(2) could still be maintained at 0.1 C. Such a lightweight separator coating with excellent catalytic performance and conductivity can provide a good example for the search of catalytic coatings for the high-performance Li-S battery.