From agaric hydrogel to nitrogen-doped 3D porous carbon for high-performance Li–S batteries
2020
Gu, Xingxing | Li, Hui | Wen, Hongyu | Zhou, Yanjun | Kang, Han | Liao, Hu | Gao, Maohua | Wang, Yueqin | Deng, Lan | Yi, Xinxin | Liu, Xiaoteng
Reproducible massive biochar with low cost has attracted great attentions due to their potential applications in the future environment and energy. In this work, a nitrogen-doped 3D porous agaric carbon (N-AC) with high specific surface area (1568.2 m² g⁻¹) was fabricated without adding any activator by using the agaric hydrogel as a precursor. And when employed as a sulfur host, the resulted N-AC–sulfur composite electrode with 60 wt% sulfur content illustrates a high reversible capacity of 875 mAh g⁻¹ at 0.2 C (1 C = 1675 mA g⁻¹) over 100 cycles as well as an excellent rate capability of 620 mAh g⁻¹ at 2 C. Such excellent electrochemical performances could attribute to (1) the conductive carbon skeleton of N-AC that provides rapid electron/ion transfer; (2) abundant pores range from micropores to macropores in N-AC that are beneficial to accommodating the active sulfur and polysulfides and (3) the nitrogen dopants that provide polarized sites in chemical binding of polysulfides. In a word, this work provides a compelling avenue to the design of multifunctional sulfur host for advanced Li–S batteries.
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