High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries Enabled by Slurry-Coated Li6PS5Cl/S/C Composite Electrodes

Among many lithium secondary batteries, lithium–sulfur batteries stand out because of their high theoretical specific energy, low cost, non-toxicity and the fact that they cause no environmental pollution. However, due to poor electronic and ionic conductivity, shuttle effect, lithium dendrites and other defects, it remains a big challenge to achieve large-scale application of lithium-sulfur batteries. Here we report an all-solid-state lithium–sulfur battery based on Li-argyrodite Li 6 PS 5 Cl solid-state electrolytes through a slurry-coating method. Li 6 PS 5 Cl with a high ionic conductivity of 1.3 × 10 –3 S cm −1 at room temperature is used as the solid electrolyte and the ion conductive additive in the electrode. The sulfur-based composite cathode is fabricated through a slurry-coating process by dispersing sulfur, Li 6 PS 5 Cl, ethyl cellulose, and carbon black in 1,3-dioxolane (DOL). This method can disperse the Li 6 PS 5 Cl around sulfur particles well, and the solvent does not react with any component of composite cathodes during preparation. The battery delivers a high discharge capacity of 962 mA h g −1 at room temperature for the first cycle at 80 mA g −1 . While the Coulombic efficiency is approximately 99.5% during 100 cycles. This work provides a new insight into the combination method between the sulfide-type SSEs and sulfur cathodes, which is critical to the electrochemical performance of all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries.