Citation: He-Jun GAO, Jing-Wen YANG, Jia-Xiao QIAO, Wei QIAO, Chao-Chao CAO, Ze-Xia LI, Peng WANG, Cheng-Chun TANG, Yan-Ming XUE. Boron nitride nanosheets/carbon fibers-modified separators for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries[J]. Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ;2023, 39(6): 1139-1150. doi: 10.11862/CJIC.2023.078 shu

Boron nitride nanosheets/carbon fibers-modified separators for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

He-Jun GAO ^{1, 2} ,
Jing-Wen YANG ^{1, 2} ,
Jia-Xiao QIAO ^{1, 2} ,
Wei QIAO ^{1, 2} ,
Chao-Chao CAO ^{1, 2} ,
Ze-Xia LI ^{1, 2} ,
Peng WANG ^{1, 2} ,
Cheng-Chun TANG ^{1, 2} ,
Yan-Ming XUE ^{1, 2,,}

1.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China
2.
Hebei Key Laboratory of Boron Nitride Micro and Nano Materials, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China

Corresponding author: Yan-Ming XUE, ym.xue@hebut.edu.cn
Received Date: 26 February 2023
Revised Date: 22 April 2023

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By electrospinning, thermal imidization, and carbonization processes, boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) were coated on the surface of carbon fibers (CFs). Thus, BNNSs and CFs can constitute the boron nitride nanosheets/ carbon fibers (BNNSs/CFs) composite to modify commercial polypropylene (PP) separators. The synergetic effect of BNNSs and CFs provides an additional conductive path to cells and serves to localize the soluble polysulfide into the cathode region. As a result, the cell assembled with the 10BNNSs/CFs-PP separator exhibited an initial discharge capacity as high as 1 295.7 mAh·g^-1 at 0.05C. Upon increasing the current density to 1C, the cells with 10BNNSs/CFs-PP separators also delivered excellent long-term cycling stability up to 400 cycles and a high final capacity of 583.1 mAh·g^-1 with a capacity decay of 0.069% per cycle.
- boron nitride nanosheets,
- electrospinning,
- shuttle effect,
- separator,
- lithium-sulfur battery
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