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Published on: November 10, 2014
Reversible intercalation and exfoliation of layered covalent triazine frameworks for enhanced lithium ion storage
Yuanzhi Zhu1, Xifan Chen, Yaqi Cao
1Faculty of Chemical Engineering, The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Phosphorus Chemical Engineering of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.
Abstract:
We report that layered covalent triazine frameworks (CTF-1) can be rapidly and reversibly intercalated with either an oxidizing or a non-oxidizing acid based on the acid-base driven mechanism. The obtained CTF-1 intercalated compounds can be readily reacted with nitronium ions and spontaneously exfoliated into 1-2 layered functionalized CTF-1 nanosheets (f-CTF-1) with a high yield of 42%. The f-CTF-1 shows a 2.5 to 3.8 times increase in specific capacitance and much better rate performance when used as an LIB anode.
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