CoSe2/MoS2 Heterostructures to Couple Polysulfide Adsorption and Catalysis in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries†
Zihan Shen
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorQingwen Zhou
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorHuiling Yu
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorJiaming Tian
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorMan Shi
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
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Chaoquan Hu
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
Nanjing IPE Institute of Green Manufacturing Industry, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211100 China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Huigang Zhang
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorZihan Shen
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorQingwen Zhou
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorHuiling Yu
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorJiaming Tian
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
Search for more papers by this authorMan Shi
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Chaoquan Hu
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190 China
Nanjing IPE Institute of Green Manufacturing Industry, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211100 China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Huigang Zhang
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Materials Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046 China
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this author†Dedicated to the Special Issue of Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage.
Main observation and conclusion
Lithium-sulfur batteries have been regarded as one of most promising next-generation energy storage devices because of their high energy density and low cost. However, polysulfide shuttling and slow kinetics hinder the practical application. We fabricated hierarchically heterostructured CoSe2/MoS2 nanoarrays on carbon clothes as the sulfur cathode host. The resulting heterostructures facilitate electron conduction and improve electrolyte wetting. More importantly, the composite heterostructures couple the strong polysulfide adsorption of CoSe2 and high catalytic activity of MoS2 to synergistically accelerate polysulfide conversion, demonstrating higher catalytic activity than their individual components.
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