Rational Designing MxSy@C (M=Ni, Co, Zn, Cu, Mn) Composites with Controlled Polysuifides Shuttling Behaviors towards Advanced Stable Room Temperature Na-S Batteries†
Wei Huang
State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials and Chemistry, Center of Analysis and Characterization, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010 China
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Search for more papers by this authorYumeng Chen
Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Cathode Materials of New Energy Battery, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
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Search for more papers by this authorJing Chen
College of Material and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
Search for more papers by this authorWei Shi
College of Material and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
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Guangliang Xua
State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials and Chemistry, Center of Analysis and Characterization, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010 China
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Yingchang Yang
College of Material and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorWei Huang
State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials and Chemistry, Center of Analysis and Characterization, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010 China
These authors contributed equally.
Search for more papers by this authorYumeng Chen
Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Cathode Materials of New Energy Battery, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
These authors contributed equally.
Search for more papers by this authorJing Chen
College of Material and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
Search for more papers by this authorWei Shi
College of Material and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
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Guangliang Xua
State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials and Chemistry, Center of Analysis and Characterization, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, 621010 China
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Yingchang Yang
College of Material and Chemical Engineering, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou, 554300 China
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]Search for more papers by this author†Dedicated to the Special Issue of Batteries.
Comprehensive Summary
Room-temperature sodium-sulfur (RT-Na/S) batteries display attractive potential in large-scale energy-storage, but their practical application was still restricted by the serious dissolution of polysulfides. Herein, supported by the constructing of interface engineering, the metal sulfide-carbon nanocomposite can be prepared with considerable electrochemical properties. Utilizing the double-helix structure of carrageenan-metal hydrogels as precursors, in-situ metal sulfide (MxSy) nanostructure/3D carbon aerogels (3D CAs) can be successfully constructed. Importantly, with the assistance of the vulcanization process, 3D carbon architecture was maintained in the composites and acted as a skeleton to optimize their structural stability. As the cathode of RT-Na/S batteries, ZnS/S@C and NiS2/S@C delivered an excellent cycling stability and rate performance (179.8 mAh·g−1 at 20 A·g−1 after 10000 cycling for ZnS/S@C, 220.3 mAh·g−1 at 10 A·g−1 after 3000 cycling for NiS2/S@C). The detailed investigation of mechanism revealed that the powerful adsorption for Na2S4 originated from 3D metal sulfide-carbon structure. The well-designed architecture of sulfide-carbon composites servers as an electrocatalyst to alleviate the shuttle effect of polysulfides, resulting in the long-term electrochemical stability. Given this, the work is expected to provide promising insights for designing advanced cathode materials for RT-Na/S batteries.
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