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Pyrolyzed bacterial cellulose/graphene oxide sandwich interlayer for lithium–sulfur batteries

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Herein, a facile strategy for the synthesis of sandwich pyrolyzed bacterial cellulose (PBC)/graphene oxide (GO) composite was reported simply by utilizing the large-scale regenerated biomass bacterial cellulose as precursor. The unique and delicate structure where three-dimensional interconnected bacterial cellulose (BC) network embedded in two-dimensional GO skeleton could not only work as an effective barrier to retard polysulfide diffusion during the charge/discharge process to enhance the cyclic stability of the Li–S battery, but also offer a continuous electron transport pathway for the improved rate capability. As a result, by utilizing pure sulfur as cathodes, the Li–S batteries assembled with PBC/GO interlayer can still exhibit a capacity of nearly 600 mAh·g−1 at 3C and only 0.055% capacity decay per cycle can be observed over 200 cycles. Additionally, the cost-efficient and environment-friendly raw materials may enable the PBC/GO sandwich interlayer to be an advanced configuration for Li–S batteries.

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This study was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2012CB933403), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51425302 and 51302045) and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. Z121100006812003).

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China

    Yu-Di Shen, Zhi-Chang Xiao, Li-Xiao Miao, De-Bin Kong & Lin-Jie Zhi

  2. Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Yu-Di Shen & Yan-Hong Chang

  3. Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollutants, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Yu-Di Shen & Yan-Hong Chang

  4. Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, 100038, China

    Xiao-Yu Zheng

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Shen, YD., Xiao, ZC., Miao, LX. et al. Pyrolyzed bacterial cellulose/graphene oxide sandwich interlayer for lithium–sulfur batteries. Rare Met. 36, 418–424 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-017-0906-9

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