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Wheat Straw-Derived N-, O-, and S-Tri-doped Porous Carbon with Ultrahigh Specific Surface Area for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- Source :
- Materials, Volume 11, Issue 6, Materials, Vol 11, Iss 6, p 989 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Recently, lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have been greeted by a huge ovation owing to their very high theoretical specific capacity (1675 mAh&middot<br />g&minus<br />1) and theoretical energy density (2600 Wh&middot<br />kg&minus<br />1). However, the full commercialization of Li-S batteries is still hindered by dramatic capacity fading resulting from the notorious &ldquo<br />shuttle effect&rdquo<br />of polysulfides. Herein, we first describe the development of a facile, inexpensive, and high-producing strategy for the fabrication of N-, O-, and S-tri-doped porous carbon (NOSPC) via pyrolysis of natural wheat straw, followed by KOH activation. The as-obtained NOSPC shows characteristic features of a highly porous carbon frame, ultrahigh specific surface area (3101.8 m2&middot<br />1), large pore volume (1.92 cm3&middot<br />1), good electrical conductivity, and in situ nitrogen (1.36 at %), oxygen (7.43 at %), and sulfur (0.7 at %) tri-doping. The NOSPC is afterwards selected to fabricate the NOSPC-sulfur (NOSPC/S) composite for the Li-S batteries cathode material. The as-prepared NOSPC/S cathode delivers a large initial discharge capacity (1049.2 mAh&middot<br />1 at 0.2 C), good cycling stability (retains a reversible capacity of 454.7 mAh&middot<br />1 over 500 cycles at 1 C with a low capacity decay of 0.088% per cycle), and superior rate performance (619.2 mAh&middot<br />1 at 2 C). The excellent electrochemical performance is mainly attributed to the synergistic effects of structural restriction and multidimensional chemical adsorptions for cooperatively repressing the polysulfides shuttle.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Composite number
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
Electrochemistry
lcsh:Technology
01 natural sciences
Article
law.invention
law
Specific surface area
ultrahigh specific surface area
General Materials Science
lcsh:Microscopy
polysulfides shuttle
tri-doped porous carbon
lcsh:QC120-168.85
lcsh:QH201-278.5
wheat straw
lcsh:T
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Sulfur
Nitrogen
Cathode
0104 chemical sciences
chemistry
Chemical engineering
lcsh:TA1-2040
Li-S batteries
lcsh:Descriptive and experimental mechanics
lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
0210 nano-technology
lcsh:TK1-9971
Pyrolysis
Carbon
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19961944
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4c6bc21faed33b011a864dc2b89ed152