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Hollow tubular conjugated organic polymer for lithium batteries

Show Author's Information Weijia Zhang§,  Shibing Zheng§,  Tao Ma,  Tianjiang Sun,  Zhanliang Tao( )
Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Centre, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300071, China

§ Weijia Zhang and Shibing Zheng contributed equally to this work.

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lithium batteries, conjugated organic polymer, hollow tubular structure, ionic migration
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Zhang W, Zheng S, Ma T, et al. Hollow tubular conjugated organic polymer for lithium batteries. Nano Research, 2023, 16(2): 2474-2479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4995-x
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Polymerization is a valid strategy to solve the dissolution issue of organic electrode materials in aprotic electrolytes. However, conventional polymers usually with amorphous structures and morphology’s influence on electrochemistry have rarely been studied. Herein, a hollow tubular poly phenyl pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone (T-PPh-PTO) organic cathode material was designed and synthesized based on the concentration-gradient of the precursor (PTO-Br2) and asymmetrical internal diffusion during the reaction. The unique hollow structure endowed T-PPh-PTO with a short Li+ diffusion path accompanied by a high diffusion coefficient (D Li+ ≈ 10−8 cm2·s−1). Thus, T-PPh-PTO presented a capacitance-dominated redox pseudocapacitance action with an outstanding rate performance (173 mAh·g−1 at 2 A·g−1) and high cycle stability (capacity retention ratio is 91.7% after 2,000 cycles). Our study leads to further developments in designing unique organic structures for energy storage.


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Hollow tubular conjugated organic polymer for lithium batteries

Show Author's information Weijia Zhang§, Shibing Zheng§, Tao Ma, Tianjiang Sun, Zhanliang Tao( )
Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Centre, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300071, China

§ Weijia Zhang and Shibing Zheng contributed equally to this work.

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Polymerization is a valid strategy to solve the dissolution issue of organic electrode materials in aprotic electrolytes. However, conventional polymers usually with amorphous structures and morphology’s influence on electrochemistry have rarely been studied. Herein, a hollow tubular poly phenyl pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone (T-PPh-PTO) organic cathode material was designed and synthesized based on the concentration-gradient of the precursor (PTO-Br2) and asymmetrical internal diffusion during the reaction. The unique hollow structure endowed T-PPh-PTO with a short Li+ diffusion path accompanied by a high diffusion coefficient (D Li+ ≈ 10−8 cm2·s−1). Thus, T-PPh-PTO presented a capacitance-dominated redox pseudocapacitance action with an outstanding rate performance (173 mAh·g−1 at 2 A·g−1) and high cycle stability (capacity retention ratio is 91.7% after 2,000 cycles). Our study leads to further developments in designing unique organic structures for energy storage.

Keywords: lithium batteries, conjugated organic polymer, hollow tubular structure, ionic migration

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Received: 06 July 2022
Revised: 24 August 2022
Accepted: 31 August 2022
Published: 19 November 2022
Issue date: February 2023

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51771094 and 21835004), the National Key Research and Development (R&D) Program of China (No. 2016YFB0901500), the Ministry of Education of China (No. B12015), and Tianjin Natural Science Foundation (No. 18JCZDJC31500).

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