Eucommia Leaf Residue-Derived Hierarchical Porous Carbon by Kcl and Cacl2 Co-Auxiliary Activation for Lithium Sulfur Batteries
SSRN Electronic Journal(2022)
Abstract
Lithium sulfur batteries are listed among the most prospective energy storage devices because of its theoretical specific capacity as high as 1675 mA h/g. However, the actual practice of lithium sulfur batteries meets two major challenges of low utilization of sulfur along with polysulfides shuttling. In this work, a hierarchical porous structure carbon (ECKCa-11) from Eucommia leaf residue-derived as raw materials is manufactured by the co-auxiliary activation of KCl and CaCl2 with a low dosage of KOH. ECKCa-11 possesses reasonable channel distribution with 1724.38 m2/g as specific surface area and nitrogen-containing functional groups, which can chemically “anchor” the lithium polysulfides by LiN interplay. Furthermore, a possible co-auxiliary activation mechanism is proposed by analyzing the surface morphology and the information of specific surface and aperture size distribution of the ECKCa-11 at different temperatures from 500 °C to 900 °C. The ECKCa-11/S cathode offers excellent electrochemical performances, delivering an initial discharge specific capacity of 1336.0 mA h/g at 0.1C in lithium sulfur batteries. This work prepares hierarchical porous carbon from invalid biomass by co-auxiliary activation, reducing the amount of KOH used, preventing equipment corrosion, and mitigating environmental pollution.
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Key words
Hierarchical porous carbon,Co-auxiliary activation,Lithium sulfur batteries,Material characteristics
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