Facile and sustainable route is developed to convert biomass into hierarchically porous carbon matrix cooperating with highly conductive graphene. By tailoring the porosity of the carbon matrix to promote fast mass transfer and cooperating highly conductive interconnected graphene frameworks to accelerate the electron transport, the carbon sulfur cathodes simultaneously achieve high areal and gravimetric sulfur loading/content (6 mg cm(-2)/67 wt%) and deliver outstanding electrochemical performance. After 100 cyclic discharge-charge test at the current density of 0.2 C, the reversible capacity maintains at 707 mA h g(-1) . (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.