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A-Man Zhang1, Mi Zhang1, Di Lan2
1Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, School of Chemistry and Materials Science , Nanjing Normal University , Nanjing 210023 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
Recently, development of a new type of anode material for lithium-ion batteries that possesses multielectron reaction, sufficient charge transfer, and restricted volume suppression has been considered a huge challenge. Herein, we find a simple hot-pressing method to incorporate polyoxometalate (POM)-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) onto three-dimensionally structured carbon cloth (CC), denoted as HP-NENU-5/CC, which immobilizes POMs into the MOFs avoiding the leaching of POMs and employs HP-NENU-5/CC as a flexible, conductive, and porous anode material. The HP-NENU-5/CC anode materials show outstanding electrochemical performance, exhibiting high reversible capacity (1723 mAh g-1 at 200 mA g-1), high rate capability (1072 mAh g-1 at 1000 mA g-1), and superior cycling stability (1072 mAh g-1 at 1000 mA g-1 after 400 cycles). Most importantly, the performance of HP-NENU-5/CC is the best among those of all reported POMs and MOF-based materials. In addition, we perform a comparative study for active materials coated on a two-dimensional current collector and CC, and our experimental results and analysis prove that the active material coated on CC does enhance the electrochemical performance.
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