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With the exceptional merits of high energy density, low cost, and environmental friendliness, lithium-sulfur batteries are considered to be one of the most promising next-generation flexible rechargeable batteries. How-ever, the notorious "shuttle effect " has seriously hindered their practical applications. Herein, a strategy for designing multi-functional bilayer carbon structures is proposed, specifically, by employing a micrometer-thick graphene nanoflowers (GF) layer to encapsulate a micrometer-scale hybrid network skeleton composed of metallic Co and carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a flexible sulfur cathode host (Co/CNT@GF). Beneficial from the merits of chemical adsorption, electrocatalysis and volume expansion mitigation from the internal skeleton as well as the micrometer-level physical domain confinement by the external GF layer, the developed host could chemically trap, electrochemically catalyze, physically block and storage the lithium polysulfides. Due to the synergistic effect of these functions, the Co/CNT@GF-S delivers a superior discharge capacity of 799 mAh g(-1) with a decay rate as low as 0.08 % per cycle after 400 cycles at 1 C. Even at a high sulfur loading of 8.16 mg cm(-2), the average discharge capacity is as high as 5.05 mAh cm(-2) in 100 cycles. This work does not only contribute to the rational design of multi-functional bilayer structures but also offers a novel design method for the commercialization of flexible lithium-sulfur batteries with high-energy-density.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
ISSN: 1385-8947
Year: 2023
Volume: 451
1 3 . 4
JCR@2023
1 3 . 4 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;
ESI HC Threshold:35
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
Cited Count:
WoS CC Cited Count: 71
SCOPUS Cited Count: 71
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 1 Unfold All
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Chinese Cited Count:
30 Days PV: 2
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