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Mesoporous TiO2 nanosheet with a large amount of exposed {001} facets as sulfur host for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries

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Li–S battery is an attractive electrochemical energy storage system because of its high energy density. However, its commercialization has been greatly affected by the poor cycle life and low rate performance, which is attributed to the dissolution of polysulfides and their shuttle effects. In this study, titanium dioxide particles with a large amount of exposed {001} facets (TDPEF) were prepared by alcohol-thermal method. The as-prepared TDPEF achieved a relatively high specific surface area of 92 m2 g−1 and a pore volume of 0.27 cm g−1. Sulfur was mixed with the TDPEF to form TDPEF/S composite by a melt diffusion process. The TDPEF/S composite exhibits much excellent discharge capacity retention of 80 % after 100 cycles compared with pure sulfur at a high current rate of 0.5 C, and it still has a discharge capacity as high as 530 mAh g−1 even at the current rate of 4 C.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Start-up Fund of Jiangsu University (Grant Nos. 14JDG060 and 14JDG058), the Postdoctoral Fund of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. 1402196C), open fund of the Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University (M28035), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21401081, 51274106, 51474113, and 51474037).

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    Xiaolong Yang, Xinye Qian, Lina Jin, Di Zhao, Shanwen Wang, Dewei Rao, Shanshan Yao & Xiangqian Shen

  2. Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Xinye Qian

  3. Hunan Engineering Laboratory of Power Battery Cathode Materials, Changsha Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Changsha, 410012, People’s Republic of China

    Youyuan Zhou & Xiaoming Xi

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Yang, X., Qian, X., Jin, L. et al. Mesoporous TiO2 nanosheet with a large amount of exposed {001} facets as sulfur host for high-performance lithium–sulfur batteries. J Solid State Electrochem 20, 2161–2168 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-016-3224-5

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