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Single atom site conjugated copper polyphthalocyanine assisted carbon nanotubes as cathode for reversible Li-CO2 batteries

Show Author's Information Yunyun Xu1,§,  Cheng Jiang1,§,  Hao Gong2,  Hairong Xue1,  Bin Gao1,  Peng Li1,  Kun Chang1,  Xianli Huang1,  Tao Wang1( ),  Jianping He1
College of Materials Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China

§ Yunyun Xu and Cheng Jiang contributed equally to this work.

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carbon nanotubes, copper polyphthalocyanine, CO2 adsorption , reversible Li-CO2 batteries
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Xu Y, Jiang C, Gong H, et al. Single atom site conjugated copper polyphthalocyanine assisted carbon nanotubes as cathode for reversible Li-CO2 batteries. Nano Research, 2022, 15(5): 4100-4107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-4052-1
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Recently, Li-CO2 battery has gradually become a research hotspot due to its high discharge capacity, energy density and environmental benefits. However, it has been an important problem for researchers because of its slow decomposition kinetics and difficult to generalize to practical application. Herein, we prepared copper polyphthalocyanine-carbon nanotubes composites (CuPPc-CNTs) by solvothermal in-situ polymerization of copper phthalocyanine on the surface of carbon nanotubes as cathode for reversible Li-CO2 batteries, which exhibits a high discharge capacity of 18,652.7 mAh·g–1 at current density of 100 mA·g–1, 1.64 V polarization at 1,000 mA·g–1, and a stable cycles number of 160 is close to 1,630 h of charge-discharge process at 200 mA·g–1. Copper polyphthalocyanine has highly efficient copper single-atom catalytic sites with excellent CO2 adsorption and activation, while carbon nanotubes provide a conductive network. The synergistic effect of the two compounds enables it to have excellent catalytic activity. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation proved that the addition of copper polyphthalocyanine significantly improved the CO2 adsorption and activation process. This study provides an opportunity for the research of covalent organic polymers (COPs) single-atom catalyst in Li-CO2 battery field.


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Single atom site conjugated copper polyphthalocyanine assisted carbon nanotubes as cathode for reversible Li-CO2 batteries

Show Author's information Yunyun Xu1,§, Cheng Jiang1,§, Hao Gong2, Hairong Xue1, Bin Gao1, Peng Li1, Kun Chang1, Xianli Huang1, Tao Wang1( ), Jianping He1
College of Materials Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China

§ Yunyun Xu and Cheng Jiang contributed equally to this work.

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Recently, Li-CO2 battery has gradually become a research hotspot due to its high discharge capacity, energy density and environmental benefits. However, it has been an important problem for researchers because of its slow decomposition kinetics and difficult to generalize to practical application. Herein, we prepared copper polyphthalocyanine-carbon nanotubes composites (CuPPc-CNTs) by solvothermal in-situ polymerization of copper phthalocyanine on the surface of carbon nanotubes as cathode for reversible Li-CO2 batteries, which exhibits a high discharge capacity of 18,652.7 mAh·g–1 at current density of 100 mA·g–1, 1.64 V polarization at 1,000 mA·g–1, and a stable cycles number of 160 is close to 1,630 h of charge-discharge process at 200 mA·g–1. Copper polyphthalocyanine has highly efficient copper single-atom catalytic sites with excellent CO2 adsorption and activation, while carbon nanotubes provide a conductive network. The synergistic effect of the two compounds enables it to have excellent catalytic activity. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation proved that the addition of copper polyphthalocyanine significantly improved the CO2 adsorption and activation process. This study provides an opportunity for the research of covalent organic polymers (COPs) single-atom catalyst in Li-CO2 battery field.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes, copper polyphthalocyanine, CO2 adsorption , reversible Li-CO2 batteries

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Received: 18 October 2021
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Published: 04 January 2022
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The authors acknowledge the financial support for this work from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Nos. BK20190413 and BK20210616), the National Defense Technology Innovation Special Zone Spark Project (No. 2016300TS00911901), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M661825), the Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy-Storage Technologies (EEST2021-2), the Funding of Research and Practice Innovation Program in NUAA for Graduate Education (No. xcxjh20210605) and a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD).

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