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Li M, Ji S, Ma X, Wang H, Wang X, Linkov V, Wang R. Synergistic Effect between Monodisperse Fe 3O 4 Nanoparticles and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosheets to Promote Polysulfide Conversion in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:16310-16319. [PMID: 35348314 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c02558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Effective fabrication of electrocatalysts active in anchoring and converting lithium polysulfides is critical for the manufacturing of high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs). In this study, original Fe3O4 nanospheres with diameters close to 12 nm were finely dispersed over a porous nitrogen-doped carbon matrix by the freeze-drying method to produce a three-dimensional composite material (nano-Fe3O4/PNC) suitable for application as a sulfur host in LSBs. Nano-Fe3O4/PNC loaded with sulfur (S@nano-Fe3O4/PNC) was used as a cathode in a Li-S cell, whose initial discharge specific capacity reached 1256 mA h g-1 at a 0.1 C rate. After 100 charge-discharge cycles at a 0.2 C rate, the reversible capacity of S@nano-Fe3O4/PNC remained at 745 mA h g-1, demonstrating a capacity retention rate of 70%. Importantly, a high Coulombic efficiency of more than 99% was achieved, indicating effective inhibition of the polysulfides' "shuttle effect" by nano-Fe3O4/PNC. The use of electrolytes containing lithium nitrate further reduces the "shuttle effect" of polysulfides. This study demonstrates the synergistic effect between metal oxide nanoparticles and N-doped carbon, which plays an important role in promoting the adsorption and conversion of polysulfides in LSBs.
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- Minhui Li
- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266042, China
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- College of Biological, Chemical Science and Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing 314001, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266042, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266042, China
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- South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town 7535, South Africa
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266042, China
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Mn3O4 anchored polypyrrole nanotubes as an efficient sulfur host for high performance lithium-sulfur batteries. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 589:208-216. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Fan S, Zhang J, Wu Q, Huang S, Zheng J, Kong D, Chen S, Wang Y, Ang LK, Shi Y, Yang HY. Morphological and Electronic Dual Regulation of Cobalt-Nickel Bimetal Phosphide Heterostructures Inducing High Water-Splitting Performance. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:3911-3919. [PMID: 32320249 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Electrocatalytic water splitting (EWS) is a key technology for generating clean and sustainable hydrogen, which can store abundant energy but is impeded by the insufficient efficiency of the anode and cathode catalyst. Designing and constructing non-noble metal composite bifunctional electrocatalysts for promoting both the cathodic hydrogen evolution (HER) and anodic oxygen evolution reactions (OER) is clearly of great importance for EWS. Thus, the chemical composition and morphology of cobalt-nickel bimetal phosphide (Ni, Co)2P nanoparticles (NPs) encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube hollow microspheres (NCNHMs) can regulate the redox-active sites and enhance the electron transfer, resulting in superior splitting efficiency. Contributing to the synergistic effects between highly active Co-Ni bimetal phosphide NPs and NCNHMs, the obtained Co-Ni bimetal phosphide/NCNHMs display remarkable electrochemical performance for water splitting compared with Ni2P/NCNHMs. Therefore, the Ni1.4Co0.6P/NCNHMs catalysts achieved through a nitriding-phosphidation strategy derived from a hollow Ni1.4-Co0.6-based metal organic framework (MOF) exhibit superior HER catalytic activity (87.9 mV at 10 mA cm-2 tested in 0.5 M H2SO4 and 64.4 mV at 10 mA cm-2 tested in 1 M KOH) and OER catalytic activity (320.0 mV at 10 mA cm-2 tested in 1 M KOH). The Ni1.4Co0.6P/NCNHMs deliver excellent water-splitting catalytic activity (1.55 V at 10 mA cm-2 tested in 1 M KOH), which is competitive with that of current non-noble metal electrocatalysts. Density functional theory (DFT) simulations and related experimental results suggest that the electron transfer from Co doping and coating with NCNHMs improves the electronic states, which would enhance the binding strength with H-bonds and then promote the electrocatalytic activity.
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- Shuang Fan
- The International Collaborative Laboratory of the 2D Materials for the Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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- The SUTD-MIT International Design Center & Science and Math Cluster, 8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372, Singapore
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- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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- The International Collaborative Laboratory of the 2D Materials for the Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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- The Key Laboratory of Material Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- The SUTD-MIT International Design Center & Science and Math Cluster, 8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372, Singapore
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- The International Collaborative Laboratory of the 2D Materials for the Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- The Engineering Technology Research Center for the 2D Material Information Function Devices and Systems of Guangdong Province, the Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- The Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372 Singapore
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