Na-X zeolite templated and sulfur-impregnated porous carbon as the cathode for a high-performance Li-S battery

Yanhui Cui; Jun Chen; Kevin Huang; Chenqiang Du; Junwei Wu; Andrew P. Baker; Xinhe Zhang

doi:10.1039/c5ra22992h

Na-X zeolite templated and sulfur-impregnated porous carbon as the cathode for a high-performance Li-S battery

Yanhui Cui
, Jun Chen
, Kevin Huang
, Chenqiang Du
, Junwei Wu^*
, Andrew P. Baker
, Xinhe Zhang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
University of South Carolina
Tianjin University
McNair Technology Co., Ltd.

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Significant efforts have recently been devoted to developing commercially viable high-capacity and low-cost lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries. In this paper, we report Na-X zeolite templated porous carbon (ZPC) filled with sulfur as a cathode material for Li-S batteries. To immobilize liquid Li sulfide, the surface of NCP was modified by amphiphilic N-polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), making ZPC amphiphilic (denoted as A-ZPC). ZPC, A-ZPC and their corresponding composites with sulfur (ZPC-S and A-ZPC-S) were analyzed by various physical characterizations, charge-discharge profiling and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results showed excellent performance of the A-ZPC-S composite cathode with 46 wt% sulfur loading, a specific capacity can be retained at 691 mA h g^-1 even after 300 cycles under a rate of 1C, fading only 0.142% per cycle.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9117-9123
Number of pages	7
Journal	RSC Advances
Volume	6
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ra22992h
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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