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  • Self-Assembling Hollow Carbon Nanobeads into Double-Shell Microspheres as a Hierarchical Sulfur Host for Sustainable Room-Temperature Sodium-Sulfur Batteries

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    Author(s)
    Zhang, Lei
    Zhang, Binwei
    Dou, Yuhai
    Wang, Yunxiao
    Al-Mamun, Mohammad
    Hu, Xianluo
    Liu, Huakun
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Zhang, Lei
    Dou, Yuhai
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    We report the use of double-carbon-shell passion fruit-like porous carbon microspheres (PCMs) as the sulfur substrate in the room temperature sodium sulfur (RT Na-S) batteries. PCMs are encapsulated with the integrate microsized carbon coating layers on the outside and composed of the interconnected nanosized hollow carbon beads inside, leading to a special multidimensional scaling double-carbon-shell structure with high electronic conductivity and strengthened mechanical properties. Sulfur was filled inside the PCMs (PCMs-S) and protected by the unique double-carbon-shell, which means the following generated intermediate ...
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    We report the use of double-carbon-shell passion fruit-like porous carbon microspheres (PCMs) as the sulfur substrate in the room temperature sodium sulfur (RT Na-S) batteries. PCMs are encapsulated with the integrate microsized carbon coating layers on the outside and composed of the interconnected nanosized hollow carbon beads inside, leading to a special multidimensional scaling double-carbon-shell structure with high electronic conductivity and strengthened mechanical properties. Sulfur was filled inside the PCMs (PCMs-S) and protected by the unique double-carbon-shell, which means the following generated intermediate sodium polysulfide species cannot be exposed to the electrolyte directly and well protected inside. In addition, the inside interconnected porous structure provides rooms for the volume expansion of sulfur during discharge processes. It is found that the PCMs-S with a 63.6 % initial coulombic efficiency delivered a reversible discharge capacity of 290 mAh g-1 at the current density of 100 mA g-1 after 350 cycling test. More importantly, PCMs-S exhibited good rate performance with a capacity of 113 and 56 mAh g-1 at the current densities of 1000 and 2000 mA g-1, respectively.
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    Journal Title
    ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
    Volume
    10
    Issue
    24
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b03850
    Copyright Statement
    This document is the Postprint: Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, © 2018 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see 10.1021/acsami.8b03850.
    Subject
    Chemical sciences
    Other chemical sciences not elsewhere classified
    Engineering
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/378721
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