An imine-linked covalent organic framework as the host material for sulfur loading in lithium–sulfur batteries

• 作者: Jianyi Wang Jingyi Chen Ligui Lin Liping Si Peibiao Wen Qin Wei Xin Li Xujia Hong Yuepeng Cai
• 来源期刊: 能源化学
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 54-60
• 页数: 7页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have high theoretical specific capacity, providing new opportunities for the next generation of secondary battery. Covalent organic framework (COF) as a new porous crystalline material has been used as the host material in Li–S battery to improve the cell’s cycling stability. In this paper, an imine-linked TAPB-PDA-COF was applied as the host material for sulfur loading (60%) in Li–S battery. The TAPB-PDA-COF has a beehive-like morphology with high thermal stability (up to 500 ℃). In the electrochemical experiment, the performance of the composite cathode with acetylene black (A-B) and super-P (S-P) as the conductive additives was studied individually. The initial discharge capacity under 0.2 A/g current density was 991 mAh/g and 1357 mAh/g for TAPB-PDA-COF/S@A-B and TAPB-PDA-COF/S@S-P, respectively. The better result of S-P based cathode than A-B could be due to the better con-ductivity of the S-P, as proved by the EIS results. When further increased the current density to 2 A/g, the S-P based composite cathode can still deliver a comparable initial discharge capacity of 630 and 274 mAh/g capacity remained after 940 cycles. This results will inspire researchers develop more suitable conductive additives together with the host materials for high performance Li–S battery.