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Coral-like CoP hollow composites as effective host cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries

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Designing a better framework for anchoring sulfur is critical for lithium-sulfur battery. Coral-like CoP composites with interconnected pore channels were synthesized via precipitation and phosphorization and were used as the host materials for sulfur (CoP@S). The developed unique architecture possesses the ability to both physically confine polysulfides and chemically bind these species inside the host surface, efficient pathways to facilitate electron/ion transportation, good structural durability to buffer the volume variation of sulfur, and has an elastic protecting shell layer to block the soluble of polysulfides. Owing to these advantages, the resulting CoP@S electrode delivered a high charge capacity of 766 mAh/g with high first columbic efficiency of 98.2% at 0.2 C, good rate capability of 586 mAh/g at 1 C, and good long cycling stability (with a capacity of 438 mAh/g after 500 cycles at 2 C), suggesting excellent high-rate long cycling performance.

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This work was supported by the Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos: 11702234 and 11602213) and the Nature Science Foundation of Hunan province (Nos: 2018JJ3488 and 2017JJ3301).

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  1. National-Provincial Laboratory of Special Function Thin Film Materials, **angtan University, **angtan, 411105, Hunan, China

    Zhaoyang Li, Youlan Zou, **liang Duan & Bo Long

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, **angtan University, **angtan, 411105, Hunan, China

    Zhaoyang Li, Youlan Zou, **liang Duan & Bo Long

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Li, Z., Zou, Y., Duan, J. et al. Coral-like CoP hollow composites as effective host cathodes for lithium-sulfur batteries. Ionics 25, 4625–4635 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-019-03047-9

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