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Hollow amorphous CoS to reversible storage sulfur as cathode of Li–S battery

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Hollow amorphous CoS was synthesized via a sulfidation of zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), which possessed the characters of physical entrapment and chemical interaction between sulfur species. The prepared hollow amorphous CoS possessed high initial capacity of 1276 mAh·g−1 at 0.2 C and reversible capacity of 812 mAh·g−1 after 120 cycles, which was better than common CoS nanoparticles. What's more, it still delivered 606 mAh·g−1 during 200 cycles at 1 C with an average coulombic efficiency of about 98.2%. These above results indicated that the hollow amorphous CoS possessed great potential as the cathode of high-performance Li–S battery.

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52003239), the Science Foundation of Yancheng Institute of Technology (No. xjr2019031), the Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU) (Nos. 11152932612005 and 11150131722006), and Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (No. 2021C01074).

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  1. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Fiber Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Yuan Yu, Lili Zhang, Yanhong Yan & Xin Gao

  2. College of Textile and Clothing, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, 224051, China

    Shuiping Liu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, School of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, 266580, China

    Rongfei Xu

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YY: Investigation, Data curation, Validation, Formal analysis, Writing—review and editing. LZ: Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing—review and editing. YY, XG, and ZL: Formal analysis and discussion. SL: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Project administration.

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Yu, Y., Zhang, L., Yan, Y. et al. Hollow amorphous CoS to reversible storage sulfur as cathode of Li–S battery. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 20479–20486 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08862-x

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