TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yang, Xiaofei
AU  - Gao, Xuejie
AU  - Sun, Qian
AU  - Jand, Sara Panahian
AU  - Yu, Ying
AU  - Zhao, Yang
AU  - Li, Xia
AU  - Adair, Keegan
AU  - Kuo, Liang‐Yin
AU  - Rohrer, Jochen
AU  - Liang, Jianneng
AU  - Lin, Xiaoting
AU  - Banis, Mohammad Norouzi
AU  - Hu, Yongfeng
AU  - Zhang, Hongzhang
AU  - Li, Xianfeng
AU  - Li, Ruying
AU  - Zhang, Huamin
AU  - Kaghazchi, Payam
AU  - Sham, Tsun‐Kong
AU  - Sun, Xueliang
TI  - Promoting the Transformation of Li 2 S 2 to Li 2 S: Significantly Increasing Utilization of Active Materials for High‐Sulfur‐Loading Li–S Batteries
JO  - Advanced materials
VL  - 31
IS  - 25
SN  - 1521-4095
CY  - Weinheim
PB  - Wiley-VCH
M1  - FZJ-2019-06022
SP  - 1901220 -
PY  - 2019
AB  - Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries with high sulfur loading are urgently required in order to take advantage of their high theoretical energy density. Ether‐based Li–S batteries involve sophisticated multistep solid–liquid–solid–solid electrochemical reaction mechanisms. Recently, studies on Li–S batteries have widely focused on the initial solid (sulfur)–liquid (soluble polysulfide)–solid (Li2S2) conversion reactions, which contribute to the first 50% of the theoretical capacity of the Li–S batteries. Nonetheless, the sluggish kinetics of the solid–solid conversion from solid‐state intermediate product Li2S2 to the final discharge product Li2S (corresponding to the last 50% of the theoretical capacity) leads to the premature end of discharge, resulting in low discharge capacity output and low sulfur utilization. To tackle the aforementioned issue, a catalyst of amorphous cobalt sulfide (CoS3) is proposed to decrease the dissociation energy of Li2S2 and propel the electrochemical transformation of Li2S2 to Li2S. The CoS3 catalyst plays a critical role in improving the sulfur utilization, especially in high‐loading sulfur cathodes (3–10 mg cm−2). Accordingly, the Li2S/Li2S2 ratio in the discharge products increased to 5.60/1 from 1/1.63 with CoS3 catalyst, resulting in a sulfur utilization increase of 20% (335 mAh g−1) compared to the counterpart sulfur electrode without CoS3.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31062911
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000475269900023
DO  - DOI:10.1002/adma.201901220
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/867205
ER  -