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The incorporation of inorganic fillers into poly(ethyleneoxide)(PEO)-based solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) is well known as a low-cost and effective method to improve their mechanical and electrochemical properties. Porous zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) is firstly used as the filler for PEO-based SPEs in this work. Due to the introduction of ZIF-8, an ionic conductivity of 2.2 × 10−5 S/cm (30 °C) is achieved for the composite SPE, which is one order of magnitude higher than that of the pure PEO. ZIF-8 also accounts for the broader electrochemical stability window and lithium ion transference number (0.36 at 60 °C) of the composite SPE. Moreover, the improved mechanism of ZIF-8 to the composite SPE is investigated by zeta potential and Fourier transform infrared spectrograph characterizations. The stability at the composite SPE/lithium interface is greatly enhanced. The LiFePO4||Li cells using the composite SPE exhibit high capacity and excellent cycling performance at 60 °C, i.e., 85% capacity retention with 111 mA·h/g capacity retained after 350 cycles at 0.5 C. In comparison, the cells using the pure PEO show fast capacity decay to 74 mA·h/g maintaining only 68 capacity. These results indicate that the PEO-based SPEs with ZIF-8 are of great promise for the application in solid-state lithium metal batteries.
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This work was financially supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (Nos. 2020B090919001 and 2019B090908001), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2019A1515010595), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2018M640778), International Cooperative Research Program of Shenzhen (No. GJHZ20180411143536149), Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Solid State Batteries (No. ZDSYS201802081843465), and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Materials for Electric Power (No. 2018B030322001).
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Exploring porous zeolitic imidazolate frame work-8 (ZIF-8) as an efficient filler for high-performance poly(ethyleneoxide)-based solid polymer electrolytes
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Lei, Z., Shen, J., Zhang, W. et al. Exploring porous zeolitic imidazolate frame work-8 (ZIF-8) as an efficient filler for high-performance poly(ethyleneoxide)-based solid polymer electrolytes. Nano Res. 13, 2259–2267 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2845-2
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