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Oxygen-Plasma-Treated Fe-N-C Catalysts with Dual Binding Sites for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Polysulfide Conversion in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
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- Issue Date
- 2022-07
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Citation
- ACS Energy Letters, Vol.7 No.8, pp.2646-2653
- Abstract
- © 2022 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.Enhanced polysulfide conversion kinetics is essential for realizing lithium-sulfur batteries with high energy density and rate performance and promising cyclability. The modification of the local atomic structure of MNxactive sites in single-atom M-N-C catalysts was proposed to improve their electrocatalytic activity for demanding reactions by fine-tuning the interaction with reaction intermediates. Here, we demonstrate that engineering the binding geometry of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) by introducing dual binding sites improves the LiPS conversion kinetics. We use mild oxygen plasma treatment to introduce oxygen species into the Fe-N-C catalyst. The plasma-treated Fe-N-C (pFeNG) catalyst with dual sulfiphilic (mononuclear iron) and lithiophilic (oxygen) binding sites has a lower polysulfide decomposition energy, especially for Li2S redox, which is known to be the most sluggish process. The pFeNG cathode shows significant improvement, especially at high C rates (916.3 mA h g-1at 5C), with promising cycling performance.
- ISSN
- 2380-8195
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