Expansion-tolerant architectures for stable cycling of ultrahigh-loading sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries

[en] Lithium-sulfur batteries can displace lithium-ion by delivering higher specific energy. Presently, however, the superior energy performance fades rapidly when the sulfur electrode is loaded to the required levels\textemdash5 to 10 mg cm-2\textemdash due to substantial volume change of lithiation/delithiation and the resultant stresses. Inspired by the classical approaches in particle agglomeration theories, we found an approach that places minimum amounts of a high-modulus binder between neighboring particles, leaving increased space for material expansion and ion diffusion. These expansion-tolerant electrodes with loadings up to 15 mg cm-2 yield high gravimetric (\>1200 mA\textperiodcenteredhour g-1) and areal (19 mA\textperiodcenteredhour cm-2) capacities. The cells are stable for more than 200 cycles, unprecedented in such thick cathodes, with Coulombic efficiency above 99\%.

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Chemistry
Energy
Materials science & engineering

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Shaibani, Mahdokht

Mirshekarloo, Meysam Sharifzadeh

Singh, Ruhani

Easton, Christopher D.

Cooray, M. C. Dilusha

Eshraghi, Nicolas ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Abendroth, Thomas

Dörfler, Susanne

Althues, Holger

Kaskel, Stefan

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English

Title :

Expansion-tolerant architectures for stable cycling of ultrahigh-loading sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries

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2020

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Science Advances

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2375-2548

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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1 eaay2757

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