Carbon cage encapsulating nano-cluster Li2S by ionic liquid polymerization and pyrolysis for high performance Li–S batteries
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0.1016/j.nanoen.2 lsevier Ltd. All rig thor. [email protected] Abstract The reversibility and stability of Li2S electrode can be improved by carbon coating on nano sized Li2S. However, how to uniformly coat a dense layer of carbon on nano sized Li2S is still challenge so far. Here, we utilized a novel flowable ionic liquid (1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide) as a carbon precursor to uniformly coat a dense carbon on Li2S nano-clusters. The carbon coated nano-Li2S cathode displays not only much high active material utilization (826 mAh/g at 0.1 C) due to short lithium ion diffusion distance and low charge transfer resistance, but also long cycling stability (82% of capacity retention after 500 cycles at 1 C) with near 100% Coulombic efficiency due to encapsulation of the lithium polysulfide within the carbon cage. & 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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