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Double diamond structured bicontinuous mesoporous titania templated by a block copolymer for anode material of lithium-ion battery

Qingqing Sheng1,§, Qian Li1,§, Luoxing Xiang1, Tao Huang1, Yiyong Mai1( ), Lu Han2( )
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

§ Qingqing Sheng and Qian Li contributed equally to this work.

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Titania has received considerable attention as a promising anode material of Li-ion battery (LIB). Controlling the structure and morphology of titania nanostructures is crucial to govern their performance. Herein, we report a mesoporous titania scaffold with a bicontinuous shifted double diamond (SDD) structure for anode material of LIB. The titania scaffold was synthesized by the cooperative self-assembly of a block copolymer poly(ethylene oxide)-block-polystyrene template and titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) as the inorganic precursor in a mixture solvent of tetrahydrofuran and HCl/water. The structure shows tetragonal symmetry (space group I41/amd) comprising two sets of diamond networks adjoining each other with the unit cell parameter of a = 90 nm and c = 127 nm, which affords the porous titania a specific surface area (SSA) of 42 m2·g−1 with a mean pore diameter of 38 nm. Serving as an anode material of LIB, the bicontinuous titania scaffold exhibits a high specific capacity of 254 mAh·g−1 at the current density of 1 A·g−1 and an alluring self-improving feature upon charge/discharge over 1,000 cycles. This study overcomes the difficulty in building up ordered bicontinuous functional materials and demonstrates their potential in energy storage application.

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bicontinuous structureblock copolymerlithium-ion batterymesoporous titaniaself-assembly

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 4,
April 2021
Pages 992-997
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-3139-4
Cite this article:
Sheng Q, Li Q, Xiang L, et al. Double diamond structured bicontinuous mesoporous titania templated by a block copolymer for anode material of lithium-ion battery. Nano Research, 2021, 14(4): 992-997. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3139-4
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AnodesBlock copolymers Energy storageMorphologyOrganic solventsTitanium Dioxide

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Received: 12 August 2020
Revised: 14 September 2020
Accepted: 20 September 2020
Published: 23 October 2020
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