Physical activation of graphene: An effective, simple and clean procedure for obtaining microporous graphene for high-performance Li/S batteries
Autor
Benítez, Almudena
Hassoun, Jusef
Rodríguez-Castellón, Enrique
Canales-Vázquez, Jesús
Caballero Amores, Álvaro
Morales Palomino, Julián
Editor
Springer VerlagFecha
2019Materia
Physical activation3D-graphene
Solvothermal microwave synthesis
Li-S battery
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Graphene nanosheets are a promising scaffold to accommodate S for achieving high performanceLi/S battery. Nanosheet activation is used as a viable strategy to induce a micropore system and further improve the battery performance. Accordingly, chemical activation methods dominate despite the need of multiple stages, which slow down the process in addition to making them tiresome. Here, a three-dimensional (3D)N-doped graphene specimen was physically activated with CO2, a clean and single step process, and used for the preparation of a sulfur composite (A-3DNG/S). The A-3DNG/S composite exhibited outstanding electrochemical properties such as an excellent rate capability (1,000 mAh·g─1at 2C), high reversible capacity and cycling stability (average capacity ~ 800 mAh·g─1at 1C after 200cycles), values which exceed those measured in chemically activated graphene. Therefore, these results support the use of physical activation as a simple and efficient alternative to improve the performance of carbons as an S host for high-performance Li-S batteries.