Citation: Feng Cao, Chunxiang Xian, Tianqi Yang, Yue Zhang, Haifeng Chen, Xinping He, Xukun Qian, Shenghui Shen, Yang Xia, Wenkui Zhang, Xinhui Xia. Gelation-pyrolysis strategy for fabrication of advanced carbon/sulfur cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(3): 110575. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.110575 shu

Gelation-pyrolysis strategy for fabrication of advanced carbon/sulfur cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries

Feng Cao ^a ,
Chunxiang Xian ^{b, c, *,} ,
Tianqi Yang ^b ,
Yue Zhang ^a ,
Haifeng Chen ^a ,
Xinping He ^b ,
Xukun Qian ^a ,
Shenghui Shen ^{d, *,} ,
Yang Xia ^b ,
Wenkui Zhang ^b ,
Xinhui Xia ^{b, c, *,}

a.
Huzhou Key Laboratory of Green Energy Materials and Battery Cascade Utilization, School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Huzhou College, Huzhou 313000, China
b.
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
c.
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
d.
School of Materials Science and & Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China

chunxiang@zju.edu.cn

shensh_@zstu.edu.cn

helloxxh@zju.edu.cn

Received Date: 23 August 2024
Revised Date: 21 October 2024
Accepted Date: 22 October 2024
Available Online: 24 October 2024

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The development of high-performance carbon-based composite hosts plays decisive roles in the electrochemistry of lithium sulfur batteries. Herein, a novel metal-ion induced gelation self-assembly technology is reported to construct sodium alginate carbon (SAC) based polar hierarchical carbon composites with cross-linked network architecture and in-situ co-grown cross-linked polar nanoparticles. Interestingly, it shows high versatility to an extensive array of materials including metals, alloys, and metallic oxides. As a representative, NiCo alloy nanoparticles are chosen to obtain the SAC/NiCo composite host for sulfur in LSBs, which possess superior physical/chemical adsorption capabilities and catalytic conversion kinetics to polysulfide in virtue of synergistic interaction between the hierarchical pore structures and NiCo catalyst. The designed SAC/NiCo-S cathode shows superior electrochemical performance with excellent rate capacity (2 C: 693.5 mAh/g) and enhanced cycling stability (764.3 mAh/g at 0.1 C after 240 cycles). This work provides a straightforward approach for fabricating multifunctional carbon composites with adjustable component for advanced energy storage system.
- Gelation-pyrolysis strategy,
- Self-assembly,
- Sodium alginate,
- Bimetallic cross-link,
- Lithium sulfur batteries
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