First-principles Study on S-N Doped Polyethylene Glycol for Li-S Batteries
SONG Lihong1,2, ZHANG Mingang1,*, CAO Xiangyu1, GUO Jin1, YAN Xiaoyan1
1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China 2 Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shanxi Institute of Economic Management, Taiyuan 030024, China
Abstract: The shuttle effect induced by soluble polysulfides severely restricts the industrialization of lithium-sulfur batteries. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) was used as the cathode and separator coating material to ease the shuttle. The adsorption mechanism of S-doped PEG400, N-doped PEG400, and S, N co-doped PEG400 for polysulfides was studied using the first principles method based on density functional theory. The results of adsorption energy, shortest adsorption distance, charge transfer, the ratio of vdW, and the partial density of states of adsorption configurations show that three substrates exhibit chemical adsorption for polysulfides, and N-doped PEG400 exhibits the best results.
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