Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a preparation method of a manganese compound/carbon tube sulfur-loaded composite material and an application thereof in a lithium-sulfur battery. The manganese compound/carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material provided by the invention improves the problems of conductivity of the positive electrode of the lithium sulfur battery, shuttle effect of polysulfide and the like, shows excellent cycle stability and has the advantage of large-scale production.
To achieve the above object, a first object of the present invention is to provide a method comprising the steps of:
(1) preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material: mixing a carbon tube and elemental sulfur according to a mass ratio of 1: 1-2, uniformly grinding, and mixing the materials in a feed liquid mass ratio of 1: 10-15 addition of CS2Stirring, and standing at room temperature to CS2After complete volatilization, preserving the heat of the residual substances in an oven at 120-160 ℃ for 8-12 h, and then cooling to room temperature to obtain the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material;
(2) preparation of manganese compound/carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material: mixing the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material obtained in the step (1) with conductive additive carbon black and binder polyvinylidene fluoride, adding solvent N-methyl pyrrolidone and manganese compound, stirring and ultrasonically dispersing uniformly, controlling the viscosity to be 1000-10000 cps, obtaining composite material slurry, drying the obtained composite material slurry, and obtaining the manganese compound/carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material, wherein the manganese compound has catalytic conversion capability on redox reaction in a lithium sulfur battery, and the mass ratio of the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material, the carbon black, the polyvinylidene fluoride and the manganese compound is (300-400): (15-50): (15-50): (3-5).
Further setting, uniformly coating the composite material slurry on a current collector aluminum foil with the thickness of 150-400 microns by using a scraper, and then transferring the current collector aluminum foil into an oven at 40-60 ℃ for drying to obtain the manganese compound and carbon tube negative sulfur composite cathode material in a sheet shape.
The current collector aluminum foil is 30um in thickness, and is cleaned by N-methyl pyrrolidone and alcohol before use to remove a surface oxide layer and impurities, and the current collector aluminum foil is naturally dried for later use.
The manganese compound is manganese tetraphenylporphyrin, manganese (III) acetylacetonate, (1S,2S) - (+) - [1, 2-cyclohexanediaminazon-N, N' -bis (3, 5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene) ] manganese (III) chloride or manganese tris (2,2,6, 6-tetramethyl-3, 5-heptenoic acid).
The second purpose of the invention is to provide a manganese compound/carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material prepared by the preparation method.
The invention also provides an application of the composite material in a positive electrode material of a lithium-sulfur battery.
The influence of the manganese compound/carbon tube composite positive material on the performance of the lithium-sulfur battery is tested as follows:
(1) assembling the battery: cutting the manganese compound and the carbon tube sulfur-loaded composite anode material into round pieces with the diameter of 14mm, weighing in a dry environment, and deducting the mass of blank aluminum sheets to prepare an anode piece for later use; as a contrast experiment, the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite positive electrode material without the manganese compound is also prepared into a contrast positive electrode piece for standby by the same method;
the cell assembly was carried out in a glove box filled with argon, water and oxygen, each less than lpm: using commercial lithium metal sheets as reference electrode and counter electrode, adopting lithium bistrifluoromethanesulfonylimide/1, 3-Dioxolane (DOL), ethylene glycol dimethyl ether (DME) LiTFSI/DOL. DMC (1: 1) and dissolving 1% LiNO3After a diaphragm of the liquid electrolyte is assembled into a CR2025 button cell by adopting Celgard2400, standing for 24 hours, and then carrying out charge and discharge tests;
(2) carrying out battery charge and discharge tests under different multiplying powers by adopting a blue/Xinwei battery test system under the test conditions of room temperature environment and 1.5-3.0V of window voltage;
the room temperature in the invention is 10-30 ℃.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) manganese compounds can catalyze the oxidation-reduction reaction in the battery;
(2) the prepared manganese compound and carbon tube sulfur-loaded composite anode material can additionally provide an electron/ion conduction path, reduce the internal resistance of the battery and greatly improve the discharge capacity and the cycle stability of the battery;
(3) the composite positive electrode material containing the manganese compound can enhance the reactivity with polysulfide and accelerate the chemical reaction kinetics, thereby inhibiting the shuttle effect and improving the performance of the lithium-sulfur battery;
(4) the carrier porous carbon provides a sulfur storage space and can limit the diffusion and transportation of polysulfide and lithium sulfide;
in summary, on the one hand, the invention provides a preparation method of a manganese compound/carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite anode material, which is simple to operate, does not involve high temperature and high pressure, can be completed at room temperature, and is easy for large-scale production; on the other hand, when the prepared composite cathode material is used in a lithium-sulfur battery, the problem that polysulfide ions are dissolved in liquid electrolyte in the charging and discharging processes of the lithium-sulfur battery can be solved, the shuttle effect is effectively inhibited, and the coulomb efficiency and the cycling stability of the lithium-sulfur battery are improved.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example 1: manganese tetraphenylporphyrin C44H30ClMnN4Preparation of carbon tube-carried sulfur composite anode material and application of anode material in lithium-sulfur battery
(1) Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material: putting 200mg of carbon tube and 200mg of elemental sulfur into a mortar, fully and uniformly grinding porous carbon and sulfur, transferring the obtained mixture into a 25mL weighing bottle, and adding 3.2mL of CS2Stirring thoroughly until CS is obtained2Completely volatilizing, transferring the mixture to a 120 ℃ oven, preserving the temperature for 12h, then cooling to room temperature, and collecting the obtained product to obtain the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material;
(2) manganese tetraphenylporphyrin C44H30ClMnN4Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite anode material: 300mg of carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material, 15mg of conductive additive carbon black, 15mg of adhesive polyvinylidene fluoride and 3-4 mg of tetraphenylporphyrinmanganese C44H30ClMnN4Mixing, adding 2.5mL NMP, ultrasonic dispersing, stirring thoroughly, controlling the viscosity of the slurry to 10000cps, and coating on a current collector aluminum foil with a scraper at a thickness of 150 μm (the aluminum foil is washed twice with NMP and alcohol to remove surface oxide layer and impurities, and air-dried naturally, the aluminum foil thickness is 30 μm). Then the aluminum foil is rotatedMoving the anode material into a drying oven at 40 ℃ and drying to obtain the required anode material;
(3) assembling the battery: and (3) cutting the composite electrode material prepared in the step (2) into round pieces with the diameter of 14mm, weighing in a dry environment, and deducting the mass of blank aluminum pieces to prepare a positive electrode piece for later use. As a control experiment, manganese C tetraphenylporphyrin was absent44H30ClMnN4The carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite anode material is also prepared into a comparison anode pole piece for standby by the same method; the cell assembly was carried out in a glove box filled with argon, water and oxygen, each less than lpm. Commercial lithium metal sheets were used as reference and counter electrodes, and LiTFSI/DOL.DMC (1: 1) was used with 1% LiNO dissolved3After a diaphragm of the liquid electrolyte is assembled into a CR2025 button cell by adopting Celgard2400, standing for 24 hours, and then carrying out charge and discharge tests;
(4) the Xinwei battery testing system performs battery charge and discharge tests under different multiplying powers, the testing conditions are room temperature environment, the window initial voltage is 1.5V, and the termination voltage is 3.0V;
FIG. 1 shows manganese tetraphenylporphyrin C prepared in this example44H30ClMnN4Carbon tube sulfur-carried composite positive electrode material for lithium sulfur battery and manganese C without adding tetraphenylporphyrin44H30ClMnN4The rate performance of the lithium-sulfur battery is compared, and the manganese C tetraphenylporphyrin is shown in the figure44H30ClMnN4The capacity of the lithium-sulfur battery of the carbon tube-carried sulfur composite material is obviously better than that of the lithium-sulfur battery without adding tetraphenylporphyrin manganese C44H30ClMnN4The battery of (1).
FIG. 2 shows manganese tetraphenylporphyrin C44H30ClMnN4Carbon tube sulfur-carried composite positive electrode material for lithium sulfur battery and manganese C without tetraphenylporphyrin44H30ClMnN4The charge-discharge platform contrast diagram of the lithium-sulfur battery under 1C is obvious from the figure, and the lithium-sulfur battery contains tetraphenylporphyrinmanganese C44H30ClMnN4The lithium-sulfur battery of the positive electrode material has higher discharge capacity.
FIG. 3 shows manganese tetraphenylporphyrin C44H30ClMnN4The carbon tube sulfur-carried composite positive material is used for lithium-sulfur battery and does not contain tetraphenylporphyrin manganese C44H30ClMnN4The lithium-sulfur batteries were compared, and a cycle stability test was carried out, from which it can be seen that manganese C, a tetraphenylporphyrin, was contained44H30ClMnN4The battery has good stability and capacity.
Example 2: (1S,2S) - (+) - [1, 2-cyclohexanediaminazine-N, N' -bis (3, 5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)]Manganese (III) chloride C36H52ClMnN2O2Preparation of carbon tube-carried sulfur composite anode material and application of anode material in lithium-sulfur battery
(1) Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material: 200mg of the carbon tube composite material obtained above and 400mg of elemental sulfur are put into a mortar, porous carbon and sulfur are fully and uniformly ground, the obtained mixture is transferred into a 25mL weighing bottle, and 6mL of CS is added2Stirring thoroughly until CS is obtained2Completely volatilizing, transferring the mixture to a 150 ℃ oven, preserving the temperature for 10h, then cooling to room temperature, and collecting the obtained product to obtain the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material;
(2) (1S,2S) - (+) - [1, 2-cyclohexanediaminazine-N, N' -bis (3, 5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)]Manganese (III) chloride C36H52ClMnN2O2Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite anode material: 400mg of carbon tube-carried sulfur composite material, 50mg of conductive additive carbon black, 50mg of adhesive polyvinylidene fluoride, 4-5 mg of (1S,2S) - (+) - [1, 2-cyclohexanediamine nitrogen-N, N' -bis (3, 5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)]Manganese (III) chloride C36H52ClMnN2O2Mixing, adding 3.5mL NMP, ultrasonic dispersing, stirring thoroughly, controlling the viscosity of the slurry at 6000cps, and coating on the current collector aluminum foil with a scraper at 150 μm thickness (the aluminum foil is cleaned with NMP and alcohol twice to remove surface oxide layer and impurities, air drying naturally, the aluminum foil thickness is 30 μm). Then transferring the aluminum foil into a 50 ℃ oven, and drying to obtain the required anode material;
(3) assembling the battery: cutting the composite electrode material prepared in the step (2) into round pieces with the diameter of 14mm, weighing in a dry environment, and deductingAnd (5) preparing the blank aluminum sheet into a positive pole piece for later use. As a contrast experiment, the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite positive electrode material without containing various manganese compounds is also prepared into a contrast positive electrode piece for standby by the same method; the cell assembly was carried out in a glove box filled with argon, water and oxygen, each less than lpm. Commercial lithium metal sheets were used as reference and counter electrodes, and LiTFSI/DOL.DMC (1: 1) was used with 1% LiNO dissolved3After a diaphragm of the liquid electrolyte is assembled into a CR2025 button cell by adopting Celgard2400, standing for 24 hours, and then carrying out charge and discharge tests;
(4) the Xinwei battery testing system performs battery charge and discharge tests under different multiplying powers, the testing conditions are room temperature environment, the window initial voltage is 1.5V, and the termination voltage is 3.0V;
FIG. 4 contains (1S,2S) - (+) - [1, 2-cyclohexanediaminazepine-N, N' -bis (3, 5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)]Manganese (III) chloride C36H52ClMnN2O2The carbon tube sulfur-loaded composite cathode material is used for a comparison graph of the rate performance of a lithium sulfur battery and a lithium sulfur battery without a manganese compound material, and the graph shows that the lithium sulfur battery containing the cathode material of the manganese compound has higher discharge capacity under various rates.
Example 3: manganese tris (2,2,6, 6-tetramethyl-3, 5-heptenoic acid) Mn (C)11H19O2)3Preparation of carbon tube-carried sulfur composite anode material and application of anode material in lithium-sulfur battery
(1) Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material: 200mg of the carbon tube composite material obtained above and 400mg of elemental sulfur are put into a mortar, porous carbon and sulfur are fully and uniformly ground, the obtained mixture is transferred into a 25mL weighing bottle, and 6mL of CS is added2Stirring thoroughly until CS is obtained2Completely volatilizing, transferring the mixture to a 150 ℃ oven, preserving the temperature for 10h, then cooling to room temperature, and collecting the obtained product to obtain the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material;
(2) manganese tris (2,2,6, 6-tetramethyl-3, 5-heptenoic acid) Mn (C)11H19O2)3Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite anode material: 400mg of carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material, 50mg of conductive additive carbon black and adhesive50mg of polyvinylidene fluoride and 4-5 mg of manganese (Mn) (C) tris (2,2,6, 6-tetramethyl-3, 5-heptenoic acid)11H19O2)3Mixing, adding 3.5mL NMP, ultrasonic dispersing, stirring thoroughly, controlling the viscosity of the slurry at 6000cps, and coating on the current collector aluminum foil with a scraper at 150 μm thickness (the aluminum foil is cleaned with NMP and alcohol twice to remove surface oxide layer and impurities, air drying naturally, the aluminum foil thickness is 30 μm). Then transferring the aluminum foil into a 50 ℃ oven, and drying to obtain the required anode material;
(3) assembling the battery: and (3) cutting the composite electrode material prepared in the step (2) into round pieces with the diameter of 14mm, weighing in a dry environment, and deducting the mass of blank aluminum pieces to prepare a positive electrode piece for later use. As a contrast experiment, the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite positive electrode material without the manganese compound is also prepared into a contrast positive electrode piece for standby by the same method; the cell assembly was carried out in a glove box filled with argon, water and oxygen, each less than lpm. Commercial lithium metal sheets were used as reference and counter electrodes, and LiTFSI/DOL.DMC (1: 1) was used with 1% LiNO dissolved3After a diaphragm of the liquid electrolyte is assembled into a CR2025 button cell by adopting Celgard2400, standing for 24 hours, and then carrying out charge and discharge tests;
(4) the Xinwei battery testing system performs battery charge and discharge tests under different multiplying powers, the testing conditions are room temperature environment, the window initial voltage is 1.5V, and the termination voltage is 3.0V;
FIG. 4 contains manganese tris (2,2,6, 6-tetramethyl-3, 5-heptenoic acid) Mn (C)11H19O2)3The graph for comparing the rate performance of the carbon tube sulfur-loaded composite cathode material used for the lithium sulfur battery with that of the lithium sulfur battery without the manganese compound material shows that the carbon tube sulfur-loaded composite cathode material contains manganese Mn (C) which is tris (2,2,6, 6-tetramethyl-3, 5-heptenoic acid)11H19O2)3The lithium-sulfur battery of the cathode material has higher discharge capacity under various multiplying powers.
Example 4: manganese (III) acetylacetonate C15H21MnO6Preparation of carbon tube-carried sulfur composite anode material and application of anode material in lithium-sulfur battery
(1) Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material: 200mg of the carbon tube composite material obtained above and 400mg of elemental sulfur are put into a mortar, porous carbon and sulfur are fully and uniformly ground, the obtained mixture is transferred into a 25mL weighing bottle, and 6mL of CS is added2Stirring thoroughly until CS is obtained2Completely volatilizing, transferring the mixture to a 150 ℃ oven, preserving the temperature for 10h, then cooling to room temperature, and collecting the obtained product to obtain the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material;
(2) manganese (III) acetylacetonate C15H21MnO6Preparing a carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite anode material: 400mg of carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite material, 50mg of conductive additive carbon black, 50mg of adhesive polyvinylidene fluoride and 4-5 mg of acetylacetone manganese (III) C15H21MnO6Mixing, adding 3.5mL NMP, ultrasonic dispersing, stirring thoroughly, controlling the viscosity of the slurry at 6000cps, and coating on the current collector aluminum foil with a scraper at 150 μm thickness (the aluminum foil is cleaned with NMP and alcohol twice to remove surface oxide layer and impurities, air drying naturally, the aluminum foil thickness is 30 μm). Then transferring the aluminum foil into a 50 ℃ oven, and drying to obtain the required anode material;
(3) assembling the battery: and (3) cutting the composite electrode material prepared in the step (2) into round pieces with the diameter of 14mm, weighing in a dry environment, and deducting the mass of blank aluminum pieces to prepare a positive electrode piece for later use. As a contrast experiment, the carbon tube sulfur-carrying composite positive electrode material without containing various manganese compounds is also prepared into a contrast positive electrode piece for standby by the same method; the cell assembly was carried out in a glove box filled with argon, water and oxygen, each less than lpm. Commercial lithium metal sheets were used as reference and counter electrodes, and LiTFSI/DOL.DMC (1: 1) was used with 1% LiNO dissolved3After a diaphragm of the liquid electrolyte is assembled into a CR2025 button cell by adopting Celgard2400, standing for 24 hours, and then carrying out charge and discharge tests;
(4) the Xinwei battery testing system performs battery charge and discharge tests under different multiplying powers, the testing conditions are room temperature environment, the window initial voltage is 1.5V, and the termination voltage is 3.0V;
FIG. 4 shows manganese (III) acetylacetonate C15H21MnO6The carbon tube sulfur-carried composite positive electrode material is respectively used for the rate performance comparison graph of a lithium sulfur battery and a lithium sulfur battery without manganese compound materials, and the graph obviously shows that the carbon tube sulfur-carried composite positive electrode material contains manganese (III) acetylacetonate C15H21MnO6The lithium-sulfur battery of the cathode material has higher discharge capacity under various multiplying powers.
The above disclosure is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and it is therefore to be understood that the invention is not limited by the scope of the appended claims.