Porous honeycomb-like C3N4/rGO composite as host for high performance Li-S batteries

作     者：Xiaomeng Bai Chunsheng Wang Caifu Dong Chuanchuan Li Yanjun Zhai Weiwei Si Liqiang Xu 白晓梦;王春省;董才富;李川川;翟艳军;司卫卫;徐立强

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Colloid & Interface Chemistry (Shandong University) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Ministry of Education Shandong University Jinan 250100 China Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University Shenzhen 518057 China Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory/Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Energy Storage & Novel Cell Technology Liaocheng University Liaocheng 252059 China 

出 版 物：《Science China Materials》 (中国科学（材料科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第62卷第9期

页      面：1265-1274页

核心收录：

学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 080502[工学-材料学] 

基　　金：supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Large Apparatus United Fund(U1832187) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21471091) the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2019MEM030) Guangdong Province Science and Technology Plan Project for Public Welfare Fund and Ability Construction Project(2017A010104003) the Fundamental Research Funds of Shandong University(2018JC022) Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province(ts201511004) 

主　　题：porous honeycomb-like graphitic C3N4 long cycleperformance lithium-sulfur batteries 

摘      要：Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have attracted extensive attention along with the urgent increasing demand for energy storage owing to the high theoretical specific capacity and energy density, abundant reserves and low cost of sulfur. However, the practical application of Li-S batteries is still impeded due to the low utilization of sulfur and serious shuttle-effect of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs). Here, we fabricated the porous honeycomb-like C3N4 (PHCN) through a hard template method. As a polar material, graphitic C3N4 has abundant nitrogen content (-58%), which can provide enough active sites to mitigate shuttle-effect, and then conductive reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was introduced to combine with PHCN to form PHCN/rGO composite in order to improve the utilization efficiency of sulfur. After sulfur loading, the PHCN/rGO/S cathode exhibited an initial discharge capacity of 1,061.1 mA h g^-1 at 0.2 C and outstanding rate performance at high current density of 5 C (495.1 mA h g^-1), and also retained 519 mA h g^-1, after 400 cycles at 1 C. Even at high sulfur loading (4.3 mg cm^-2), the capacity fade rate was only 0.16% per cycle at 0.5 C for 200 cycles. The above results demonstrate that the special design of PHCN/rGO composite as sulfur host has high potential application for Li-S rechargeable batteries.