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Promoting polysulfide conversions via cobalt single-atom catalyst for fast and durable lithium-sulfur batteries

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Although promising strategies have been developed to resolve the critical drawbacks of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, the intractable issues including undesirable shuttling of polysulfides and sluggish redox reaction kinetics have still been unresolved thoroughly. Herein, a cobalt single-atom (CoSA) catalyst comprising of atomic Co distributed homogeneously within nitrogen (N)-doped porous carbon (Co-NPC) nanosphere is constructed and utilized as a separator coating in Li-S batteries. The Co-NPC exposes abundant active sites participating in sulfur redox reactions, and remarkable catalytic activity boosting the rapid polysulfide conversions. As a result, Li-S batteries with Co-NPC coating layer realize significantly enhanced specific capacity (1295 mAh·g−1 at 0.2 C), rate capability (753 mAh·g−1 at 3.0 C), and long-life cyclic stability (601 mAh·g−1 after 500 cycles at 1.0 C). Increasing the areal sulfur loading to 6.2 mg·cm−2, an extremely high areal capacity of 7.92 mAh·cm−2 is achieved. Further in situ X-ray diffraction, density functional theory calculations, and secondary ion mass spectrometry confirm the high catalytic capability of CoSA towards reversible polysulfide conversion. This study supplies new insights for adopting single-atom catalyst to upgrade the electrochemical performance of Li-S batteries.

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This project was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22005003), the Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province Education Department (Nos. 2022AH030046 and 2022AH050334), the Yong Scientific Foundation of Anhui University of Technology for Top Talent (No. DT2100000947), and the Scientific Research Foundation of Anhui University of Technology for Talent Introduction (No. DT19100069). The theoretical simulations were carried out at Shanxi Supercomputing Center of China, and performed on TianHe-2.

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Wang, Z., Cheng, Y., Wang, S. et al. Promoting polysulfide conversions via cobalt single-atom catalyst for fast and durable lithium-sulfur batteries. Nano Res. 16, 9335–9343 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5557-6

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