Superstructured mesocrystals through multiple inherent molecular interactions for highly reversible sodium ion batteries

Xiaoling Qiu; Xiaoling Wang; Yunxiang He; Jieying Liang; Kang Liang; Blaise L. Tardy; Joseph J. Richardson; Ming Hu; Hao Wu; Yun Zhang; Orlando J. Rojas; Ian Manners; Junling Guo

doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh3482

Superstructured mesocrystals through multiple inherent molecular interactions for highly reversible sodium ion batteries

Xiaoling Qiu, Xiaoling Wang, Yunxiang He, Jieying Liang, Kang Liang, Blaise L. Tardy, Joseph J. Richardson, Ming Hu, Hao Wu^*, Yun Zhang^*, Orlando J. Rojas, Ian Manners, Junling Guo^*

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Abstract

Soft structures in nature, such as supercoiled DNA and proteins, can organize into complex hierarchical architectures through multiple noncovalent molecular interactions. Identifying new classes of natural building blocks capable of facilitating long-range hierarchical structuring has remained an elusive goal. We report the bottom-up synthesis of a hierarchical metal-phenolic mesocrystal where self-assembly proceeds on different length scales in a spatiotemporally controlled manner. Phenolic-based coordination complexes organize into supramolecular threads that assemble into tertiary nanoscale filaments, lastly packing into quaternary mesocrystals. The hierarchically ordered structures are preserved after thermal conversion into a metal-carbon hybrid framework and can impart outstanding performance to sodium ion batteries, which affords a capability of 72.5 milliampere hours per gram at an ultrahigh rate of 200 amperes per gram and a 90% capacity retention over 15,000 cycles at a current density of 5.0 amperes per gram. This hierarchical structuring of natural polyphenols is expected to find widespread applications.

Original language	English
Article number	eabh3482
Number of pages	10
Journal	Science Advances
Volume	7
Issue number	37
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abh3482
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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This work was supported by National Talents Program, Double First Class University Plan of Sichuan University, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (grant no. sklpme2020-03-01), National Natural Science Foundation of China (21878192 and 51502180), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2016SCU04A18), Talents Program of Sichuan Province, Graduate Student's Research and Innovation Fund of Sichuan University (2018YJSY070), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020TQ0209), and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (P20373).

Keywords

HIGH-PERFORMANCE ANODES
LITHIUM-ION
BISMUTH
CARBON
NANOPARTICLES
COORDINATION
ORGANIZATION
NETWORK
SPHERES

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