Niu Aimin, Mu Jinglin, Zhou Jin, Tang Xiaonan, Zhuo Shuping
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China.
Nanomaterials (Basel). 2023 Feb 28;13(5):909. doi: 10.3390/nano13050909.
Lithium-sulfur batteries have attracted extensive attention owing to their environmental friendliness, abundant reserves, high specific discharge capacity, and energy density. The shuttling effect and sluggish redox reactions confine the practical application of Li-S batteries. Exploring the new catalyst activation principle plays a key role in restraining polysulfide shuttling and improving conversion kinetics. In this respect, vacancy defects have been demonstrated to enhance the polysulfide adsorption and catalytic ability. However, inducing active defects has been mostly created by anion vacancies. In this work, an advanced polysulfide immobilizer and catalytic accelerator is developed by proposing FeOOH nanosheets with rich Fe vacancies (FeVs). The work provides a new strategy for the rational design and facile fabrication of cation vacancies to improve the performance of Li-S batteries.
锂硫电池因其环境友好、储量丰富、比放电容量高和能量密度大而受到广泛关注。穿梭效应和缓慢的氧化还原反应限制了锂硫电池的实际应用。探索新的催化剂活化原理对于抑制多硫化物穿梭和改善转化动力学起着关键作用。在这方面,空位缺陷已被证明可增强多硫化物吸附和催化能力。然而,诱导活性缺陷大多是由阴离子空位产生的。在这项工作中,通过提出具有丰富铁空位(FeV)的FeOOH纳米片,开发了一种先进的多硫化物固定剂和催化促进剂。这项工作为合理设计和简便制备阳离子空位以提高锂硫电池性能提供了一种新策略。