Citation: Zhibo Liu, Li Wang, Wantai Yang. Hierarchically porous nitrogen-doped carbon foams decorated with zinc nanodots as high-performance sulfur hosts for lithium-sulfur battery[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2021, 32(9): 2919-2922. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.02.027 shu

Hierarchically porous nitrogen-doped carbon foams decorated with zinc nanodots as high-performance sulfur hosts for lithium-sulfur battery

Zhibo Liu ^{a, b} ,
Li Wang ^{a, b, *,} ,
Wantai Yang ^{a, b, c}

a.
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
b.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
c.
Beijing Advanced Innovation Centre for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China

lwang@mail.buct.edu.cn

Received Date: 14 February 2020
Revised Date: 9 February 2021
Accepted Date: 14 February 2021
Available Online: 17 February 2021

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To prevent polysulfides from dissolution into electrolyte, we propose a novel and simple approach to nitrogen-doped carbon foams which contain hierarchically porous structure and are decorated with zinc nanodots through one-pot carbonization and activation process. These carbon foams, which serve as hosts for sulfur in lithium battery, can provide a conducting network and shorter diffusion length for Li-ions. Specially, the zinc nanodots derived from the carbothermal reaction of ZnCl₂ at high temperature can interact with sulfur/polysulfides by strong chemisorption. In addition, the zinc nanodots can also facilitate the conversion reaction between Li₂S_x (2 < x < 8) and Li₂S/Li₂S₂. Therefore, Zn@NCFs/S cathode presents high sulfur utility and large capacity.
- Nitrogen-doped carbon foams,
- Hierarchically porous,
- Lithium-sulfur battery,
- Zinc nanodots,
- Hosts
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