Mixed-Metal-Organic Framework with Effective Lewis Acidic Sites for Sulfur Confinement in High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.
The mixed-metal-organic framework approach and a representative zirconium-metalloporphyrin framework (MOF-525) have been developed to create novel sulfur hosts and Li-S batteries. The different local environments at the centers of the porphyrin moieties in a series of MMOFs-MOF-525(2H), MOF-525(FeCl), and MOF-525(Cu)-have led to their different behaviors for the confinement of sulfur and thus Li-S batteries. The unique structure of MOF-525(Cu) has enabled each Cu(2+) site to offer two Lewis acidic sites, featuring it as a very powerful MOF host for the inclusion of sulfur and polysulfides. The S@MOF-525(Cu) cathode has demonstrated the best performance among all reported sulfur/MOFs composite cathode materials, with a reversible capacity of about 700 mAh/g at 0.5 C after 200 cycles.
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.
Ziqi
Z
Wang
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.
Buxue
B
Wang
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.
Yu
Y
Yang
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.
Yuanjing
Y
Cui
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.
Zhiyu
Z
Wang
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.|Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio , San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States.
Banglin
B
Chen
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 P. R. China.
Guodong
G
Qian
Lewis acidic sites; lithium−sulfur battery; metalloporphyrin ligand; metal−organic framework; sulfur confinement