title: Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanotubes Forest/Carbon Cloth as an Efficient Electrode for Lithium-Polysulfide Batteries.
abstract: The development of a three-dimensionally flexible, large-surface area, high-conductivity electrode is important to improve the low conductivity and utilization of active materials and restrict the shuttle of long-chain polysulfides in Li-polysulfide batteries. Herein, we constructed an integrated three-dimensional carbon nanotube forest/carbon cloth electrode with heteroatom doping and high electrical conductivity. The as-constructed electrode provides strong trapping on the polysulfide species and fast charge transfer. Therefore, the Li-polysulfide batteries with as-constructed electrodes achieved high specific capacities of ∼1200 and ∼800 mA h g-1at 0.1 and 1 C, respectively. After 300 cycles at 0.5 C, a specific capacity of 623 mA h g-1was retained.
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.|CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.|Hunan Province YinFeng New Energy Company Ltd. , Changsha 410000, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiong-Wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.|CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.|CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hui-Xian
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sheng
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ya-Xia
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Wen-Xin
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: College of Science, National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Utilization of Functional Ingredients from Botanica, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University , Changsha 410128, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Rui-Lian
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology, and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.|School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yu-Guo
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0322-8476
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Guo
keywords: Li−polysulfide batteries; carbon cloth; carbon nanotubes forest; heteroatom doping; three-dimensional electrode