Citation: Wenxue Wang, Longwei Bai, Na Li, Shuo Zhao, Xiaodong Shi, Peng Wang. Selenium-doping metal phosphides as bifunctional catalyst carrier for durable lithium-sulfur batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(10): 110938. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2025.110938 shu

Selenium-doping metal phosphides as bifunctional catalyst carrier for durable lithium-sulfur batteries

Wenxue Wang ^{a, 1} ,
Longwei Bai ^{a, 1} ,
Na Li ^{a, d, *,} ,
Shuo Zhao ^{b, *,} ,
Xiaodong Shi ^{c, *,} ,
Peng Wang ^{a, *,}

a.
Hebei Key Laboratory of Flexible Functional Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, China
b.
Technology Innovation Center for High Quality Cold Heading Steel of Hebei Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056000, China
c.
School of Marine Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
d.
Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

nali90@hebust.edu.cn

zhaos418@hebeu.edu.cn

shixiaodong@hainanu.edu.cn

pengwang85@hebust.edu.cn

Received Date: 4 January 2025
Revised Date: 21 January 2025
Accepted Date: 8 February 2025
Available Online: 9 February 2025

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The practical application of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries is still impeded by the severe shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) and sluggish reaction kinetics of active sulfur. Designing catalytic carriers with abundant active sites and strong chemisorption capability for LiPSs, is regarded as effective strategy to address these issues. Herein, Se-doping is introduced into the nitrogen-doped carbon coated CoP composite (Se-CoP@NC) to generate structural defects, which effectively enlarges the lattice spacing of CoP and reduces the conversion reaction energy barriers of LiPSs. Meanwhile, Se-doping sites bridges the interface of CoP and nitrogen-doped carbon, accelerating the charge transfer behavior and conversion reaction kinetics of LiPSs. Benefiting from the structural advantages, the assembled Li-S batteries with S/Se-CoP@NC as cathode exhibit high reversible capacity of 779.6 mAh/g at 0.5 C after 500 cycles, and high specific capacity of 805.9 mAh/g at 2 C. Even under extreme conditions (high sulfur-loading content of 6.9 mg/cm²; lean electrolyte dosage of 7 µL/mg), the corresponding Li-S batteries also keep high reversible areal capacity of 4.5 mAh/cm² after 100 cycles at 0.1 C. This work will inspire the design of metal compounds-based catalysts from atomic level to facilitate the practicability of Li-S batteries.
- Porous catalytic carrier,
- Selenium-doping metal phosphides,
- Polysulfides shuttle effect,
- Active sulfur dissolution,
- High sulfur-loading content,
- Lithium-sulfur batteries
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