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Boosting Dual‐Directional Polysulfide Electrocatalysis via Bimetallic Alloying for Printable Li–S Batteries

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The rational design of electrocatalyst has readily stimulated a burgeoning interest in expediting polysulfide conversion and hence essentially restricting the “shuttle effect” in Li–S systems. Nevertheless, seldom efforts have been… Click to show full abstract

The rational design of electrocatalyst has readily stimulated a burgeoning interest in expediting polysulfide conversion and hence essentially restricting the “shuttle effect” in Li–S systems. Nevertheless, seldom efforts have been devoted to probing the dual‐directional polysulfide electrocatalysis to date. Herein, a CoFe alloy decorated mesoporous carbon sphere (CoFe‐MCS) serving as a promising mediator for Li–S batteries is reported. Such bimetallic alloying boosts dual‐directional electrocatalytic activity toward effective polysulfide conversion throughout detailed electroanalytic characterization, theoretical calculation, and operando instrumental probing. Accordingly, the S@CoFe‐MCS cathode harvests a stable cycling with a low capacity decay rate of 0.062% per cycle over 500 cycles at 2.0 C. More encouragingly, benefiting from the optimized redox kinetics and delicate grid architecture, printable S@CoFe‐MCS cathode achieves an excellent rate performance at a sulfur loading of 4.0 mg cm−2 and advanced areal capacity of 6.0 mAh cm−2 at 7.7 mg cm−2. This work explores non‐precious metal alloy electrocatalysts in printable cathodes toward dual‐directional polysulfide conversion, holding great potential in the pursuit of Li–S commercialization.

Keywords: polysulfide; polysulfide electrocatalysis; bimetallic alloying; dual directional; directional polysulfide

Journal Title: Advanced Functional Materials
Year Published: 2020

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