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Biomimetic brain-like nanostructures for solid polymer electrolytes with fast ion transport

仿生脑状纳米结构的固态聚合物电解质实现快速锂离子输运

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The intrinsic drawbacks of electrolytes and the growth of lithium dendrites limit the development of commercial lithium batteries. To address the aforementioned challenges, a novel biomimetic brain-like nanostructure (BBLN) solid polymer electrolyte was created by manipulating the shape of the incorporated nanoparticles. Our designed BBLN solid polymer electrolyte was created by incorporating spherical core-shell (UIO-66@67) fillers into polymer electrolyte, which is significantly different from traditional polymer-based composite electrolytes. UIO-66@67 spherical nanoparticles are highly favorable to eliminating polymer electrolyte stress and deformation during solidification, indicating a great potential for fabricating highly uniform BBLN solid polymer electrolytes with a substantial number of continuous convolutions. Furthermore, spherical nanoparticles can significantly reduce the crystalline structure of polymer electrolytes, improving polymer chain segmental movement and providing continuous pathways for rapid ion transfer. As a result, BBLN solid polymer electrolyte shows excellent ionic conductivity (9.2 × 10−4 S cm−1), a high lithium transference number (0.74), and outstanding cycle stability against lithium electrodes over 6500 h at room temperature. The concept of biomimetic brain-like nanostructures in this work demonstrates a novel strategy to enhance ion transport in polymer-based electrolytes for solid-state batteries.

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电解液的固有缺陷以及锂枝晶问题严重限制了当前商业化锂离子电池的发展. 为了解决上述问题, 本文通过控制加入纳米填料的形状, 获得了具有仿生脑状纳米结构的固态聚合物电解质(BBLN). 与传统复合聚合物固态电解质不同, 我们通过添加球状核壳UIO-66@67纳米填料制备了具有仿生脑状纳米结构的固态聚合物电解质. 球状UIO-66@67纳米颗粒能够有效减小聚合物基质在固化过程中的形变, 从而促进形成独特的仿生脑状纳米结构. 此外, 球状纳米颗粒能够有效降低聚合物电解质的结晶度, 提高其链段运动能力, 形成连续的锂离子传输路径. 基于此, 仿生脑状固态聚合物电解质具有高离子电导率(9.2 × 10−4 S cm−1), 高锂离子迁移数(0.74)和良好的锂金属兼容性(>6500 h). 本研究中提出的仿生脑状纳米结构的设计理念是一种有效增强固态电池中聚合物基电解质的离子输运的新策略.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51802239 and 52127816), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFA0715000), the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province (2021BAA070), Foshan Xianhu Laboratory of the Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory (XHT2020-005), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2020III011GX, 2020IVB057, 2019IVB054 and 2019III062JL).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Ahmed Eissa Abdelmaoula, Lulu Du  (杜路路), Lin Xu  (徐林), Yu Cheng  (程宇), Muhammad Tahir, Ziang Liu  (刘子昂) & Liqiang Mai  (麦立强)

  2. Foshan Xianhu Laboratory of the Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Xianhu Hydrogen Valley, Foshan, 528200, China

    Lin Xu  (徐林) & Liqiang Mai  (麦立强)

  3. Mining and Metallurgical Department, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 11884, Egypt

    Ahmed Eissa Abdelmaoula & Amir A. Mahdy

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Author contributions Abdelmaoula AE performed all the experiments and the data analyses as well as wrote the manuscript; Xu L and Mai L were in charge of this scientific research project, and the leaders of actual coordination of contributions; Abdelmaoula AE, Cheng Y, Mahdy AA, Tahir M and Liu Z contributed to the theoretical analysis All authors contributed to the general discussion

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Ahmed Eissa Abdelmaoula is currently pursuing his PhD degree at the School of Material Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology (WUT). His research interests include the design and fabrication of solid electrolyte materials for energy storage.

Lin Xu is a professor of materials science and engineering at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, WUT. He received his PhD degree from WUT in 2013 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in 2013–2016. His research focuses on the electrochemical energy storage.

Liqiang Mai is a Chair Professor of materials science and engineering at WUT, Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, WUT, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He received his PhD from WUT in 2004 and carried out his postdoctoral research at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006–2007. He worked as an advanced research scholar at Harvard University in 2008–2011 and the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. His current research interests focus on new nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and micro/nano energy devices.

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Abdelmaoula, A.E., Du, L., Xu, L. et al. Biomimetic brain-like nanostructures for solid polymer electrolytes with fast ion transport. Sci. China Mater. 65, 1476–1484 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-021-1940-2

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