Citation: Lei Ji, Xia Wang, Yongfeng Jia, Xiaoxi Qin, Yi Sui, Huizhong Yan, Zhiqiang Niu, Jinghai Liu, Yuegang Zhang. Oxygen and nitrogen tailoring carbon fiber aerogel with platinum electrocatalysis interfaced lithium/sulfur (Li/S) batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(1): 107123. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.01.016 shu

Oxygen and nitrogen tailoring carbon fiber aerogel with platinum electrocatalysis interfaced lithium/sulfur (Li/S) batteries

Lei Ji ^{a, 1} ,
Xia Wang ^{b, 1} ,
Yongfeng Jia ^b ,
Xiaoxi Qin ^b ,
Yi Sui ^a ,
Huizhong Yan ^a ,
Zhiqiang Niu ^d ,
Jinghai Liu ^{b, *,} ,
Yuegang Zhang ^c

a.
State Key Laboratory of Baiyunobo Rare Earth Resource Researches and Comprehensive Utilization, Baotou Research Institute of Rare Earths, Baotou 014030, China
b.
Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Carbon Nanomaterials, Nano Innovation Institute (NII), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Inner Mongolia MinZu University, Tongliao 028000, China
c.
Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
d.
Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

jhliu2008@sinano.ac.cn

Received Date: 21 November 2021
Revised Date: 27 December 2021
Accepted Date: 7 January 2022
Available Online: 13 January 2022

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Sluggish kinetics of lithium/sulfur (Li/S) conversion chemistry and the ion channels formation in the cathode is still a bottleneck for developing future Li/S batteries with high-rate, long-cycling and high-energy. Here, a rational cathode structure design of an oxygen (O) and nitrogen (N) tailoring carbon fiber aerogel (OCNF) as a host material integrated with platinum (Pt) electrocatalysis interface is employed to regulate Li/S conversion chemistry and ion channel. The Pt nanoparticles were uniformly sprayed onto the S surface to construct the electrocatalysis interface (Pt/S/OCNF) for generating ion channels to promote the effective penetration of electrolyte into the cathode. This Pt/S/OCNF gives the cathode a high sulfur utilization of 77.5%, an excellent rate capacity of 813.2 mAh/g (2 C), and an outstanding long-cycling performance with a capacitance retention of 82.6% and a decay of 0.086% per cycle after 200 cycles at 0.5 C. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the Pt electrocatalysis interface makes the cathode a high density of state (DOS) at Fermi level to facilitate the electrical conductivity, charge transfer kinetics and electrocatalysis to accelerate the lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) electrochemical conversion. Furthermore, the unique chemisorption structure and adsorption ability of Li₂S_n (n = 1, 2, 4, 6, 8) and S₈ on OCNF are attributed to the bridging effects of interfacial Pt and the bonding of N-Li. The Pt electrocatalysis interface combined with the unique 3D hierarchical porous structure and abundant functional active sites at OCNF guarantee strong adsorption confinement, fast Li/S electrocatalytic conversion and unblocked ion channels for electrolyte permeation in cathode.
- Li/S conversion chemistry,
- Ion channels,
- Pt electrocatalysis interface,
- 3D aerogel host (OCNF),
- Adsorption confinement
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