Cerium Based Metal–Organic Frameworks as an Efficient Separator Coating Catalyzing the Conversion of Polysulfides for High Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

In this work, we demonstrate cerium (Ce) based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to form Ce-MOF/CNT composites as separator coating material in the Li–S battery system, which showed excellent electrochemical performance even under high sulfur loading and much bett...

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Published in:ACS nano 2019-02, Vol.13 (2), p.1923-1931, Article acsnano.8b08155
Main Authors: Hong, Xu-Jia, Song, Chun-Lei, Yang, Yan, Tan, Hao-Chong, Li, Guo-Hui, Cai, Yue-Peng, Wang, Hongxia
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Language:English
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Summary:In this work, we demonstrate cerium (Ce) based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) combined with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to form Ce-MOF/CNT composites as separator coating material in the Li–S battery system, which showed excellent electrochemical performance even under high sulfur loading and much better capacity retention. At the sulfur loading of 2.5 mg/cm2, initial specific capacity of 1021.8 mAh/g at 1C was achieved in the Li–S cell with the Ce-MOF-2/CNT coated separator, which was slowly reduced to 838.8 mAh/g after 800 cycles with a decay rate of only 0.022% and the Coulombic efficiency of nearly 100%. Even at a higher sulfur loading of 6 mg/cm2, the cell based on Ce-MOF-2/CNT separator coating still exhibited excellent performance with initial specific capacity of 993.5 mAh/g at 0.1 C. After 200 cycles, the specific capacity of 886.4 mAh/g was still retained. The excellent performance is ascribed to the efficient adsorption of the Ce-MOF-2 to Li2S6 species and its catalytic effect toward conversion of polysulfides, resulting in suppressed shuttle effect of polysulfides in the Li–S batteries.
ISSN:1936-0851
1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/acsnano.8b08155