Citation: Rongfan Zhou, Shenghui Shen, Yu Zhong, Ping Liu, Yongqi Zhang, Lingjie Zhang, Xiuli Wang, Xinhui Xia, Jiangping Tu. Co-construction of advanced sulfur host by implanting titanium carbide into Aspergillus niger spore carbon[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2022, 33(8): 3981-3986. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.11.032 shu

Co-construction of advanced sulfur host by implanting titanium carbide into Aspergillus niger spore carbon

Rongfan Zhou ^a ,
Shenghui Shen ^a ,
Yu Zhong ^a ,
Ping Liu ^a ,
Yongqi Zhang ^{b, *,} ,
Lingjie Zhang ^{a, *,} ,
Xiuli Wang ^a ,
Xinhui Xia ^{a, b, *,} ,
Jiangping Tu ^a

a.
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
b.
Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou) & Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Huzhou 313000, China

yqzhang@uestc.edu.cn

zhanglingjie@zju.edu.cn

helloxxh@zju.edu.cn

Received Date: 31 August 2021
Revised Date: 17 October 2021
Accepted Date: 7 November 2021
Available Online: 12 November 2021

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It is of great importance to directionally construct advanced carbon host to achieve high-performance carbon/sulfur cathodes for lithium sulfur batteries (LSBs). Herein, we report a unique hollow pumpkin-like carbon with notable rich-wrinkle microstructure and intrinsically dual doping with N & P elements via a facile annealing process of Aspergillus niger spore. Furthermore, highly conductive polar absorbents, TiC nanoparticles, are in situ implanted into the above Aspergillus niger spore carbon (ANSC) by carbothermal reaction, accordingly forming high-performance ANSC/TiC composite host for sulfur. Impressively, TiC nanoparticles play dual roles of not only pore formation in ANSC matrix but also enhancement of chemical absorption with polysulfides. With the positive synergistic effect between N & P co-doped ANSC matrix and TiC polar absorbent, the designed ANSC/TiC-S cathodes show unique advantages including larger accommodation space for sulfur, higher surface area, enhanced conductivity and better chemical absorption with soluble polysulfide intermediates. Consequently, the ANSC/TiC-S cathodes are endowed with good rate performance (496 mAh/g at 0.5 C) and enhanced long-term cycling stability (736 mAh/g with a capacity retention of 78.8% at 0.1 C after 100 cycles). Our research opens a new door to controllably design advanced composite cathodes from microorganisms for application in lithium sulfur batteries.
- Aspergillus niger,
- Spore carbon,
- Titanium carbide,
- Cathode,
- Lithium sulfur batteries
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