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A 2D covalent organic framework with ultra-large interlayer distance as high-rate anode material for lithium-ion batteries

Manman Wu1,2,3, Yang Zhao1,3, Hongtao Zhang1,3, Jie Zhu1,3, Yanfeng Ma1,3, Chenxi Li1,3, Yamin Zhang4, Yongsheng Chen1,3 ()
The Centre of Nanoscale Science and Technology and Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center (RECAST), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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By integrating piperazine and nonplanar linkage into the skeleton of covalent organic framework (COF), an aminal-linked piperazine-terephthalaldehyde (PA-TA) COF featured with ultra-large interlayer distance is designed and synthesized as the high-rate anode material for LIBs.

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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have been broadly investigated for energy storage systems. However, many COF-based anode materials suffer from low utilization of redox-active sites and sluggish ions/electrons transport caused by their densely stacked layers. Thus, it is still a great challenge to obtain COF-based anode materials with fast ions/electrons transport and thus superior rate performance. Herein, a redox-active piperazine-terephthalaldehyde (PA-TA) COF with ultra-large interlayer distance is designed and synthesized for high-rate anode material, which contains piperazine units adopting a chair-shaped conformation with the nonplanar linkages of a tetrahedral configuration. This unique structure renders PA-TA COF an ultra-large interlayer distance of 6.2 Å, and further enables it to achieve outstanding rate and cycling performance. With a high specific capacity of 543 mAh·g−1 even after 400 cycles at 1.0 A·g−1, it still could afford a specific capacity of 207 mAh·g−1 even at a high current density of 5.0 A·g−1. Our study indicates that expanding the interlayer distance of COFs by rational molecular design would be of great importance to develop high-rate electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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lithium-ion batterieshigh-rate anode materialcovalent organic frameworksultra-large interlayer distance

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 11,
November 2022
Pages 9779-9784
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3950-6
Cite this article:
Wu M, Zhao Y, Zhang H, et al. A 2D covalent organic framework with ultra-large interlayer distance as high-rate anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Nano Research, 2022, 15(11): 9779-9784. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3950-6
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