Chemistry of Materials 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Page 26 of 28 Supporting Information Bimodal Mesoporous Carbon Nanofibers with High Porosity: Freestanding and Embedded in Membranes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Guang He‡, Benjamin Mandlmeier†, Jörg Schuster†, Linda F. Nazar*‡ and Thomas Bein*† Figure S1: STEM-HAADF image of carbon nanofibers (f-BMC-SIL) after removal of macroporous silica with HF (10 wt%). The FFTs of the highlighted red areas A-C show hexagonally ordered domains within the individual fibers. 26 ACS Paragon Plus Environment Page 27 of 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Chemistry of Materials Figure S2: SAXS pattern for the sample f-BMC-AAM indexed in the circular hexagonal (p6mm) unit cell. The squares show the reflections from the mesophases in the AAM pores while the circles show reflections from a mesoporous top layer on the membrane. This top layer can be indexed in a 2Dhexagonal unit cell (plane group p6mm) with 01 orientation regarding the membrane normal. 27 ACS Paragon Plus Environment Chemistry of Materials 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Page 28 of 28 Figure S3: Cycling stability of the two carbon nanofibers (f-BMC-SIL-S50 and f-BMC-AAM-S50) loaded with 50 wt% sulfur. The f-BMC-SIL-S50 cathode exhibits higher discharge capacities, but similar cycling performance like the f-BMC-AAM-S50. The discharge capacity drops from initially 1250 mAh/g to 751 mAh/g (50 cycles) and 648 mAh/g (100 cycles) for the f-BMC-SIL-S50 electrode, which corresponds to a reduction of ca. 40 and 48 %, respectively. The sample was measured at a rate of 1C. =============================== For Table of Contents Only TOC file 28 ACS Paragon Plus Environment
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