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Nano Li4Ti5O12 as sulfur host for high-performance Li-S battery

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S/Li4Ti5O12 cathode with high lithium ionic conductivity was prepared for Li-S battery. Herein, nano Li4Ti5O12 is used as sulfur host and fast Li+ conductor, which can adsorb effectively polysulfides and improve remarkably Li+ diffusion coefficient in sulfur cathode. At 0.5 C, S/Li4Ti5O12 cathode has a stable discharge capacity of 616 mAh g−1 at the 700th cycle and a capacity loss per cycle of 0.0196% from the second to the 700th cycle, but the corresponding values of S/C cathode are 437 mAh g−1 and 0.0598%. Even at 2 C, the capacity loss per cycle of S/Li4Ti5O12 cathode is only 0.0273% from the second to the 700th cycle. The results indicate that Li4Ti5O12 as the sulfur host plays a key role on the high performance of Li-S battery due to reducing the shuttle effect and enhancing lithium ionic conductivity.

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This work was supported by the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (Grant No. KJ1709217, KJ1600926), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 21206203), Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (no. cstc2016jcyjA0438), and the Scientific Research Innovation Team of Chongqing University of Technology (no. cqut2015srim).

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    Tianbiao Zeng, Penghui Ji, Biao Shang, Qimeng Peng, Xuebu Hu & Gang Li

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Zeng, T., Ji, P., Shang, B. et al. Nano Li4Ti5O12 as sulfur host for high-performance Li-S battery. Ionics 24, 2973–2982 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-018-2468-8

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