MnO‐Inlaid hierarchically porous carbon hybrid for lithium‐sulfur batteries

Weilin Liu; Xiaojing Fan; Bin Xu; Peng Chen; Dejian Tang; Fancheng Meng; Rulong Zhou; Jiehua Liu

doi:10.1002/nano.202000157

Nano Select (Mar 2021)

MnO‐Inlaid hierarchically porous carbon hybrid for lithium‐sulfur batteries

Weilin Liu,
Xiaojing Fan,
Bin Xu,
Peng Chen,
Dejian Tang,
Fancheng Meng,
Rulong Zhou,
Jiehua Liu

Affiliations

Weilin Liu: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Xiaojing Fan: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Bin Xu: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Peng Chen: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Dejian Tang: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Fancheng Meng: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Rulong Zhou: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China
Jiehua Liu: Future Energy Laboratory School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Research Center of High‐Performance Copper Alloy Materials and Processing Ministry of Education Hefei University of Technology Hefei 230009 China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/nano.202000157
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 573 – 580

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Abstract Lithium‐sulfur batteries possess great prospects in next‐generation energy‐storage devices though there are still some tough challenges currently. In this paper, MnO‐inlaid hierarchically porous carbon hybrid is prepared by a one‐pot solid‐state method and followed with annealing treatment. The MnO nanoparticles are synthesized via glucose‐derived carbon reduction with salt as the template. The resultant carbon‐coated MnO, which owns a hierarchical porous structure, benefits to alleviate the shuttle effect of lithium‐sulfur battery and immobilize the soluble polysulfide to improve the electrochemical performance by both physical limitation and chemisorption. As a result, the cathode MnO‐PC/S reveals a high initial discharge capacity of 1384 mAh g−1 at 0.2 C and a high retention capacity of 593 mAh g−1 over 200 cycles.

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ISSN: 2688-4011 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Materials of engineering and construction. Mechanics of materials
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/26884011

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