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Dynamic Hosts for High Performance LiS Batteries Studied by Cryo-TEM and In Situ XRD Xiao-Chen Liu, Yao Yang, Jingjie Wu, Miao Liu, Sophia Zhou, Barnaby D. A. Levin, Xiao-Dong Zhou, Hengjiang Cong, David A. Muller, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Héctor D. Abruña, and Fu-Sheng Ke ACS Energy Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00561 • Publication Date (Web): 11 May 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on May 11, 2018
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Dynamic Hosts for High Performance Li-S Batteries Studied by Cryo-TEM and In Situ XRD Xiao-Chen Liu,†,# Yao Yang,‡,# Jingjie Wu,§ Miao Liu,‖ Sophia Zhou,† Barnaby D. A. Levin,⊥ Xiao-Dong Zhou,△ Hengjiang Cong,† David A. Muller,⊥,¶ Pulickel M. Ajayan,§ Héctor D. Abruña‡,* and Fu-Sheng Ke†,* †
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College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Department of Materials Science and Nano Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA
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Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA ⊥School △
of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Materials Research and Innovations, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504, USA
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Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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[email protected] (H. D. Abruña); *
[email protected] (F. –S. Ke)
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ABSTRACT: Developing a high performance sulfur host is central to the commercialization and general development of lithium sulfur batteries. Here, for the first time, we propose the concept of dynamic hosts for lithium sulfur batteries and elucidated the mechanism through which TiS2 acts in such fashion, using in situ X-ray diffraction and cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy (cryo-STEM). A TiS2-S composite electrode delivered a reversible capacity of 1120 mAh g-1 at 0.3 C after 200 cycles with a capacity retention of 97.0%, as well as capacities of 886 and 613 mAh g-1 at 1.0 C up to 200 and 1000 cycles, respectively. Our results indicate that it is LixTiS2 (0
