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Space-confined synthesis of CoSe2-NC nanoclusters anchored on honeycomb-like carbon framework towards high-performance lithium sulfur battery

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Lithium–sulfur (Li-S) battery has been considered to be one of the next-generation high-energy-density rechargeable battery systems due to the high theoretical energy density, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, the commercial application of Li-S battery still faces problems such as sluggish redox kinetics and infamous shuttle effect of sulfur cathode, which result in low sulfur utilization, poor cycle life, and unsatisfied rate performance. Herein, we proposed a CoSe2-NC nanocluster anchored honeycomb-like carbon framework (CoSe2-NC@HCF) as sulfur host aiming to accelerate sulfur conversion and inhibit polysulfide shuttle in Li-S electrochemistry via space-confined growth and in situ selenization. The obtained CoSe2-NC@HCF provides strong chemical adsorption capability and massive polar cobalt active sites as well as abundant and continuous hierarchical pores supplying adequate sulfur storage space and physical confinement. The S/CoSe2-NC@HCF cathode with sulfur content of 83.24 wt% delivers high sulfur utilization with initial discharge capacity of 1212.9 mAhg−1 at 0.1 C, excellent rate performance with 1094.7 mAh·g–1 at 1C rate, and good cyclability with low-capacity decay rate of 0.12% up to 600 cycles.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21875282, 51702362), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2022JJ30663), the Scientific Research Project of National University of Defense Technology (Grant Nos. ZK19-27), and significant independent Research Projects for Young Talents of College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology.

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    Sun Xinxing, Gao Hongjing, Liu Shuangke, Sun Weiwei, Li Yujie, Wang Danqin, Guo Qingpeng, Hong Xiaobin, Xu Jing & Zheng Chunman

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Sun Xinxing and Gao Hongjing: data curation, formal analysis, and writing, original draft. Liu Shuangke: conceptualization and writing, review and editing. Sun Weiwei: investigation and formal analysis. Li Yujie: project administration and resources. Wang Danqin: project administration and software. Guo Qingpeng: project administration and resources. Hong Xiaobin: methodology and project administration. Xu Jing: project administration and funding acquisition. Zheng Chunman: supervision and investigation.

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Xinxing, S., Hongjing, G., Shuangke, L. et al. Space-confined synthesis of CoSe2-NC nanoclusters anchored on honeycomb-like carbon framework towards high-performance lithium sulfur battery. Ionics 29, 4707–4722 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-023-05164-y

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