Abstract
Designing of high electrochemical performance organic electrode materials has attracted tremendous attention. Recent investigations revealed that quinone-based polymers along with the stable thioether bonds could achieve a high specific capacity and a good cycling stability simultaneously. In this study, we synthesized a novel ladder-structured polymer poly(2,3-dithiino-1,4- benzoquinone) (PDB) through a simple two-step polymerization. The electrochemical performance indicated that PDB could achieve a high reversible specific capacity of 681 mAh g−1 with 98.4% capacity retention after 100 cycles. A good rate performance was also achieved with a fast recovery of the capacity after testing at different current densities. Ultra-long cycling performance of PDB was also investigated. The promising results of PDB provided us more confidence to continue searching for high performance polymers through the modification of organic structures.
摘要
近年来, 设计和合成高性能的锂离子电池用有机化合物电极吸引了许多的关注. 很多研究表明基于苯醌和硫醚结构的聚合物可以同时具 有高比容量和稳定的循环效率. 本研究用一个简单的聚合方法合成了一个新型的梯形聚合物聚(2,3-二噻烯-1,4-二苯醌) (PDB). 分析发现此聚合 物具有1050 mAh g−1 的初始可逆比容量, 并且在循环一百次之后还保留有681 mAh g−1 的比容量和98.4%的库伦比效率. 当此聚合物在不同电流 下充放电后并且重新设置回小电流时, 其比容量还可以恢复到之前小电流充放电时的性能, 证明了此聚合物有很好的倍率性能. 进一步大电流 充放电表明此聚合物可以一直持续1000个循环, 再次说明了此聚合物电极的循环稳定性.
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Jian Xie received his BEng degree in materials science and engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2013. After one and a half years of industrial experience as a process engineer, he is currently a PhD candidate in Prof. Qichun Zhang’s group, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research focuses on the synthesis and fabrication of polymer electrode materials.
Qichun Zhang obtained his BSc degree at Nanjing University in China in 1992, MSc degree in physical organic chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998, MSc in organic chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and completed his PhD in inorganic chemistry at the University of California Riverside (USA) in 2007. Then, he joined Prof. Kanatzidis’s group at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral fellow (Oct. 2007–Dec. 2008). Since Jan. 2009, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) as an assistant professor. On Mar 1st, 2014, he has been promoted to associate professor with tenure and on Dec 1st, 2014, he became an adjunct associate professor at the Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU. He has published more than 195 papers and 4 patents (H-index: 38).
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Xie, J., Wang, Z., Gu, P. et al. A novel quinone-based polymer electrode for high performance lithium-ion batteries. Sci. China Mater. 59, 6–11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-016-0112-3
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