Selenium-sulfur (SeS) fast charging cathode for sodium and lithium metal batteries

Viet Hung Pham; J. Anibal Boscoboinik; Dario J. Stacchiola; Ethan C. Self; Palanisamy Manikandan; Sudhan Nagarajan; Yixian Wang; Vilas G. Pol; Jagjit Nanda; Eunsu Paek; David Mitlin

doi:10.1016/j.ensm.2019.04.021

Selenium-sulfur (SeS) fast charging cathode for sodium and lithium metal batteries

Viet Hung Pham, J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Dario J. Stacchiola, Ethan C. Self, Palanisamy Manikandan, Sudhan Nagarajan, Yixian Wang, Vilas G. Pol, Jagjit Nanda, Eunsu Paek, David Mitlin

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Abstract

We report a bifunctional sodium metal battery (SMB) and lithium metal battery (LMB) cathode based on 63 wt.%SeS covalently bonded to a co-pyrolyzed polyacrylonitrile (PAN) host, termed “SeSPAN”. This dense, low surface area, fully-amorphous electrode offers a highly favorable combination of reversible capacity, rate capability, and cycling life: At a fast charging rate of 1 A g⁻¹, the reversible capacities with Na and Li are 632 and 749 mAh g⁻¹ (based on active SeS), with cycle 1 CE of 81% in both cases. At an ultra-fast charging rate of 4 A g⁻¹ (∼5C) the reversible capacities with Na and Li are 453 and 604 mAh g⁻¹. Li-SeSPAN degrades 3% at cycle 500, while with Na-SeSPAN degrades by 17% after 150 cycles at 0.5 A g⁻¹. Both Na and Li cells display a uniquely low voltage hysteresis (210 and 200 mV at a current density of 0.2 A g⁻¹), indicative of facile charge-discharge kinetics. Analysis of the post-cycled anodes shows negligible S or Se crossover, with neither species being detected in the Li-SEI after extended cycling.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-79
Number of pages	9
Journal	Energy Storage Materials
Volume	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2019.04.021
State	Published - Jul 2019

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VHP, YW, EP and DM (research conception, synthesis and electrochemical analysis, manuscript preparation) are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award # DE-SC0018074 . JN and ECS (research co-conception, micro-Raman analysis, manuscript co-preparation) are supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy , Office of Vehicle Technologies of the US Department of Energy (DOE) through the Advanced Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program. VP wish to thank Prof. Wang’s research team for the TEM measurements. This research used analytical characterization facilities of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, which is a U.S. DOE Office of Science Facility , at Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704 . VHP, YW, EP and DM (research conception, synthesis and electrochemical analysis, manuscript preparation) are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award # DE-SC0018074. JN and ECS (research co-conception, micro-Raman analysis, manuscript co-preparation) are supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Vehicle Technologies of the US Department of Energy (DOE) through the Advanced Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program. VP wish to thank Prof. Wang's research team for the TEM measurements. This research used analytical characterization facilities of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, which is a U.S. DOE Office of Science Facility, at Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704.

Keywords

Lithium metal anode
Polyacrylonitrile
Selenium sulfide
Sodium metal anode
Sulfurized carbon

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