The invention discloses a carbon-coated
oxygen-vacancy-enriched hollow sphere H-CeO2-coated C-NC
composite material and a preparation method and application thereof.The method comprises the steps that 1,
polyvinylpyrrolidone is dissolved in an
ethanol solution, CeCl3. 7H2O is added, Cu2O is added after the CeCl3. 7H2O is dissolved, stirring is conducted at the
room temperature, and a
brick-red solution is obtained; step 2, dropwise adding a
sodium thiosulfate solution into the
brick red solution to obtain a faint yellow solution, stirring at
room temperature, and then sequentially standing, aging, centrifuging, washing and
vacuum drying to obtain light yellow hollow CeO2
powder; step 3, respectively taking the hollow CeO2
powder and
dopamine hydrochloride, adding into a
Tris buffer solution, uniformly stirring, and sequentially centrifuging, washing and
vacuum drying to obtain a CeO2
composite material CeO2 (at) PDA coated with polydopamine; and step 4, placing the CeO2 (at) PDA in a tubular furnace, and performing high-temperature
carbonization treatment in an
argon atmosphere to obtain the carbon-coated
oxygen-vacancy-rich hollow sphere H-CeO2 (at) C-NC
composite material which can endow the Li-S battery with excellent rate capability and good long cycle stability.