Cotton cloth templated in situ encapsulation of sulfur into carbon fibers for lithium–sulfur batteries. Issue 4 (18th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Raulo, Avinash; Gupta, Amit; Srivastava, Rajiv; Nandan, Bhanu
• Is Part Of: Chemical communications. Volume 57:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 544
• Page End: 547
• Publication Date: 2020-12-18
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1039/d0cc06643e
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-7345

Abstract

Abstract : For energy storage applications, sulfur was in situ synthesized and encapsulated inside carbon fibers by using waste cotton textiles as the fiber template. Abstract : An in situ encapsulation strategy for embedding sulfur within carbon (S@C) fiber through a sustainable and scalable route using waste cotton cloth as a fiber template, is developed. The S@C fibers with reasonably high sulfur content of ∼71% displayed promising electrochemical performance when employed as a cathode material for a lithium sulfur battery (LSB). The S@C fibers developed herein have the potential to be used as a promising cathode material for other sulfur-based batteries as well.