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Nitro-functionalized Fe-MOFs for lithium-sulfur batteries

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Energy storage by means of lithium-sulfur batteries holds great promise. They are inexpensive and have a high potential energy density. Unfortunately, the battery’s cycling performance is greatly diminished by the shuttle effect of polysulfide. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with high specific surface area, nanopore size, and plentiful porosity have been proven to help prevent polysulfide migration in recent years. In this research, partially nitro-functionalized MIL-101(Fe) has been produced by combining different proportion ligands. As an electron-withdrawing group, the nitro group can reduce the charge density of the metal sites and improve the adsorption capacity of the material to polysulfides. MIL-101-NO2-0.25 showed the performance with an initial discharge capacity of 1051.5 mAh g−1 at a current density of 0.5 C and maintained at 908 mAh g−1 after 250 cycles.

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The authors are thankful to the Analytical & Testing Center of Tiangong University for the technical support in SEM measurements.

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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (No. 20JCYBJC00230).

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    Yanli Ruan & Haitao Zheng

  3. School of Material Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

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Yanli Ruan: conceptualization, supervision, writing——review and editing, and funding acquisition. Haoyu Cai: investigation, validation, software, formal analysis, and writing——original draft. Jinshuai Feng: assist with electrochemical testing. Haikuo Lei: aids in the preparation of modified separators. Haitao Zheng: validation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ruan, Y., Cai, H., Feng, J. et al. Nitro-functionalized Fe-MOFs for lithium-sulfur batteries. Ionics 30, 769–778 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-023-05321-3

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