NiMoO 4 Nanosheets Anchored on NS Doped Carbon Clothes with Hierarchical Structure as a Bidirectional Catalyst toward Accelerating Polysulfides Conversion for LiS Battery

作者：Tingting Sun, Xiaomei Zhao, Bo Li, Hongbo Shu, Lipan Luo, Wenlong Xia, Manfang Chen, Peng Zeng, Xiukang Yang, Ping Gao, Yong Pei, Xianyou Wang · 发表于：Advanced Functional Materials · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1002/adfm.202101285 · 被引用次数：196 · 研究领域：Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies、Advancements in Battery Materials、Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

Abstract The serious shuttle effect, sluggish reduction kinetics of polysulfides and the difficult oxidation reaction of Li 2 S have hindered LiS battery practical application. Herein, a 3D hierarchical structure composed of NiMoO 4 nanosheets in situ anchored on NS doped carbon clothes (NiMoO 4 @NSCC) as the free‐standing host is creatively designed and constructed for LiS battery. Dual transitional metal oxide (NiMoO 4 ) increases the electrons density near the Fermi level due to the contribution of the incorporating molybdenum (Mo), leading to the smaller bandgap, and thus stronger metallic properties compared with NiO. Furthermore, as a bidirectional catalyst, NiMoO 4 is proposed to facilitate reductions of polysulfides through lengthening the SS bond distance of Li 2 S 4 and reducing the free energy of polysulfides conversion, meanwhile promote critical oxidation of insulative discharge product (Li 2 S) via lengthening LiS bond distance of Li 2 S and decreasing Li 2 S decomposition barrier. Therefore, after loading sulfur (2 mg cm −2 ), NiMoO 4 @NSCC/S as the self‐supporting cathode for the LiS battery exhibits impressive long cycle stability. This study proposes a concept of a bidirectional catalyst with dual metal oxides, which would supply a novel vision to construct the high‐performance LiS battery.