The invention discloses a preparation method of a
sulfur-poly
ionic liquid copolymer composite positive
electrode and a
lithium-
sulfur battery, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) mixing an
ionic liquid and a
solvent, adding a
lithium salt and an initiator, and stirring until the mixture is clear and transparent to obtain a precursor solution; (2) mixing the precursor solution with
sulfur powder, putting the mixture into a pulping box for ball milling, and then
drying to obtain a sulfur-coated polyion liquid
copolymer; (3) preparing positive
electrode slurry by taking the sulfur-coated polyion liquid
copolymer, conductive
graphite,
acetylene black and
polyvinylidene fluoride as raw materials; and blade-
coating the positive
electrode slurry on the carbon-coated
aluminum foil, and
drying to obtain the sulfur-polyion liquid copolymer composite positive electrode. In the polyion liquid copolymer prepared by the invention, the surface of part of sulfur
powder is coated with the polyion liquid, so that the
ion transmission rate and the electrochemical stability of the positive electrode can be enhanced; the surface of the residual sulfur
powder is not coated by the polymerized
ionic liquid, and the residual sulfur powder is exposed and can be combined with the conductive agent, so that the
conductivity of the positive electrode is enhanced. According to the sulfur-poly ionic liquid copolymer composite positive electrode, the
lithium-sulfur battery can have excellent
conductivity and
chemical stability, and the cycle performance and the rate capability of the lithium-sulfur battery under different current densities can be greatly improved.