Boron-doped microporous nano carbon as cathode material for high-performance Li-S batteries

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• 作者：Feng Wu ; Ji Qian ; Weiping Wu ; Yusheng Ye ; Zhiguo Sun ; Bin Xu&#8230
• 关键词：boron ; doping ; microporous carbon ; binding energy ; Li ; S batteries
• 刊名：Nano Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：2
• 页码：426-436
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Nanotechnology; Materials Science, general; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra; Condensed Matter Physics; Biotechnology; Biomedicine, general;
• 出版者：Tsinghua University Press
• ISSN：1998-0000
• 卷排序：10

文摘

In this study, a boron-doped microporous carbon (BMC)/sulfur nanocomposite is synthesized and applied as a novel cathode material for advanced Li-S batteries. The cell with this cathode exhibits an ultrahigh cycling stability and rate capability. After activation, a capacity of 749.5 mAh/g was obtained on the 54th cycle at a discharge current of 3.2 A/g. After 500 cycles, capacity of 561.8 mAh/g remained (74.96% retention), with only a very small average capacity decay of 0.056%. The excellent reversibility and stability of the novel sulfur cathode can be attributed to the ability of the boron-doped microporous carbon host to both physically confine polysulfides and chemically bind these species on the host surface. Theoretical calculations confirm that boron-doped carbon is capable of significantly stronger interactions with the polysulfide species than undoped carbon, most likely as a result of the lower electronegativity of boron. We believe that this doping strategy can be extended to other metal-air batteries and fuel cells, and that it has promising potential for many different applications.