Preparation of PTFE/Ketjen Black-C flexible composites by high energy ball milling method and its electrochemical application

Chong Yan, Xiangnan Li, Zhaoxia Cao, Shuanbao Tian, Yanhong Yin, Shuting Yang*

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Abstract

A lithium-sulfur battery interlayer flexible material composed of precursor carbon material was prepared by multi-step temperature carbonization process with lotus-leaf as the raw material, ball-milling blending and vacuum filtrating precursor carbon material, Ketjen Black (KB) as well as polytetrafluo-roethylene (PTFE) at the mass ratio of 2:2:3. The porous structure of PTFE/KB-C composites can not only provide a large number of three-phase reaction sites for further reduction of higher-order sulfide Li2Sn (4≤n≤8), but also suppress the shuttle effect of soluble polysulphide by good multilayer porous chemical adsorption effect of PTFE/KB-C composites. The lithium-sulfur battery capacity property test characterization of interlayer with pure sulfur as the anode material shows that initial discharge specific capacity is as high as 1350 mAh·g-1 at 1.0 C rate (current density is 1675 mA·g-1) and remains 960 mAh·g-1 after 100 charge-discharge cycles without nitric acid lithium additives. Coulomb efficiency above 95% is achieved, demonstrating high performance of cycle stability.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2390-2396
Number of pages7
JournalFuhe Cailiao Xuebao/Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica
Volume33
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Anode
  • Interlayer
  • Lithium-sulfur battery
  • Lotus-leaf
  • Shuttle effect

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