Citation: Shuang Ma, Guangying Wan, Zhuoying Yan, Xuecheng Liu, Tiezhu Chen, Xinmin Wang, Jinhang Dai, Juan Lin, Tiefeng Liu, Xingxing Gu. Eco-friendly aqueous binder derived from waste ramie for high-performance Li-S battery[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(5): 109853. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109853 shu

Eco-friendly aqueous binder derived from waste ramie for high-performance Li-S battery

Shuang Ma ^{a, b, 1} ,
Guangying Wan ^{c, 1} ,
Zhuoying Yan ^c ,
Xuecheng Liu ^{a, *,} ,
Tiezhu Chen ^b ,
Xinmin Wang ^a ,
Jinhang Dai ^a ,
Juan Lin ^b ,
Tiefeng Liu ^{c, d, e, *,} ,
Xingxing Gu ^{a, *,}

a.
Chongqing Key Laboratory of Catalysis and New Environmental Materials, College of Environment and Resources, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
b.
Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Quality and Innovation Research of Chinese Materia Medica, Sichuan Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
c.
College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
d.
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
e.
Quzhou Institute of Power Battery and Grid Energy Storage, Quzhou 324000, China

liuxc@ctbu.edu.cn

tiefengliu@zju.edu.cn

x.gu@ctbu.edu.cn

Received Date: 28 February 2024
Revised Date: 8 March 2024
Accepted Date: 1 April 2024
Available Online: 2 April 2024

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Even the sulfur cathode in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery has the advantages of high theoretical energy density, wide source of raw materials, no pollution to the environment, and so on. It still suffers the sore points of easy electrode collapse due to large volume expansion during charge and discharge and low active materials utilization caused by the severe shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs). Therefore, in this work, ramie gum (RG) was extracted from ramie fiber degumming liquid and used as the functional binder to address the above problems and improve the Li-S battery's performance for the first time. Surprisingly, the sulfur cathode using RG binder illustrates a high initial capacity of 1152.2 mAh/g, and a reversible capacity of 644.6 mAh/g after 500 cycles at 0.5 C, far better than the sulfur cathode using polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) binder. More importantly, even if the active materials loading increased to as high as 4.30 mg/cm², the area capacity is still around 3.1 mAh/cm² after 200 cycles. Such excellent performances could be attributed to the abundant oxygen- and nitrogen-containing functional groups of RG that can effectively inhibit the shuttle effect of LiPSs, as well as the excellent viscosity and mechanical properties that can maintain electrode integrity during long-term charging/discharging. This work verifies the feasibility of RG as an eco-friendly and high-performance Li-S battery binder and provides a new idea for the utilization of agricultural biomass resources.
- Li-S battery,
- Ramie gum,
- Eco-friendly,
- Sulfur cathode,
- Polysulfides
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