journal article·2024-06Open access

Hyphae‐mediated bioassembly of carbon fibers derivatives for advanced battery energy storage

Lei Huang, Zhong Qiu, Ping Liu, Xinhui Xia, Feng Cao, Xinping He, Chen Wang, Wangjun Wan, Yongqi Zhang, Yang Xia, Wenkui Zhang, Minghua Chen, Jiancang Zhou

Carbon Energy· Volume 6· Issue 6

Abstract

Abstract Ingenious design and fabrication of advanced carbon‐based sulfur cathodes are extremely important to the development of high‐energy lithium‐sulfur batteries, which hold promise as the next‐generation power source. Herein, for the first time, we report a novel versatile hyphae‐mediated biological assembly technology to achieve scale production of hyphae carbon fibers (HCFs) derivatives, in which different components including carbon, metal compounds, and semiconductors can be homogeneously assembled with HCFs to form composite networks. The mechanism of biological adsorption assembly is also proposed. As a representative, reduced graphene oxides (rGOs) decorated with hollow carbon spheres (HCSs) successfully co‐assemble with HCFs to form HCSs@rGOs/HCFs hosts for sulfur cathodes. In this unique architecture, not only large accommodation space for sulfur but also restrained volume expansion and fast charge transport paths are realized. Meanwhile, multiscale physical barriers plus chemisorption sites are simultaneously established to anchor soluble lithium polysulfides. Accordingly, the designed HCSs@rGOs/HCFs‐S cathodes deliver a high capacity (1189 mA h g−1 at 0.1 C) and good high‐rate capability (686 mA h g−1 at 5 C). Our work provides a new approach for the preparation of high‐performance carbon‐based electrodes for energy storage devices.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies · Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication · MXene and MAX Phase Materials

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Affiliations

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou China

State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, School of Materials Science & Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou China

College of Materials Science & Engineering Zhejiang University of Technology Hangzhou China

State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment Fuzhou University Fuzhou China

Department of Engineering Technology Huzhou College Huzhou China

Zhejiang Academy of Science and Technology for Inspection & Quarantine Hangzhou Zhejiang China

Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Science University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu China

Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectric and Applications (Ministry of Education), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Harbin University of Science and Technology Harbin China

Funding

Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Ministry of Education

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