Citation: Gamal H. Al-Shawesh, Jiawen Zhu, Wei Zhang, Shuai Xie, Junjie Xu, Guolei Cai, Amar Y. Al-Ansi, Yunhong Wei, Song Jin, Hengxing Ji. Iron atom–nanoparticles for interactional enhancing the electrocatalytic reaction activity in Li-S batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(11): 108190. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108190 shu

Iron atom–nanoparticles for interactional enhancing the electrocatalytic reaction activity in Li-S batteries

Gamal H. Al-Shawesh ^{a, b} ,
Jiawen Zhu ^a ,
Wei Zhang ^a ,
Shuai Xie ^a ,
Junjie Xu ^c ,
Guolei Cai ^a ,
Amar Y. Al-Ansi ^a ,
Yunhong Wei ^{a, *,} ,
Song Jin ^a ,
Hengxing Ji ^{a, *,}

a.
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
b.
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Thamar University, Dhamar, Yemen
c.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

weiyunhong@ustc.edu.cn

jihengx@ustc.edu.cn

Received Date: 7 November 2022
Revised Date: 15 December 2022
Accepted Date: 2 February 2023
Available Online: 6 February 2023

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The undesirable shuttle effect and sluggish redox kinetics of polysulfides seriously result in low sulfur utilization and poor capacity retention. Here, an integrated strategy is proposed by rational designing multifunctional architecture to manipulate the redox kinetics of polysulfides, specifically, by employing iron atoms (Fe-As) and iron-species nanoparticles (Fe-NPs) co-embedded nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube (Fe-NCNT) as catalyst and host for sulfur. The synergistic cooperation of Fe-As and Fe-NPs provides efficient active sites to facilitate the diffusion, strengthen the affinities, and promote the conversion reactions for polysulfides. Furthermore, the NCNT not only offers practical Li⁺ transport pathways but also immobilize the polysulfides effectively. Benefiting from these merits, the Fe-NCNT/S electrodes exhibit high initial specific capacity of 1502.6 mAh/g at 0.1 C, outstanding rate performance (830 mAh/g at 2 C), and good cycling performance (597.8 mAh/g after 500 cycles with an ultralow capacity fading rate of 0.069% per cycle). This work features the distinct interaction of iron atom-nanoparticles on facilitating immobilization-diffusion-transformation process of polysulfides, and it also expected to pave the way for the application in practical Li-S batteries.
- N-doped carbon nanotubes,
- Iron atoms,
- Iron nanoparticles,
- Electrocatalyst,
- Li-S batteries
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