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Hybrids gel electrolytes with pending polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane toward improving interfacial stability for lithium ion batteries

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Hybrids gel electrolytes with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane hung on cross-linked networks through chemical bond are designed toward improving interfacial stability for Lithium ion batteries. The corresponding hybrids gel electrolytes deliver an ionic conductivity of 2.25 × 10–3 S cm−1, lithium-ion transference number (\(t_{{{\text{Li}}^{ + } }}\)) of 0.34 at 26 °C and wide electrochemical windows of 5.0 V. The Li/Li symmetric cells with this hybrid gel polymer electrolytes (HGPEs) exhibit excellent long-term stability up to 2000 h at 0.1 mA cm−2. In particular, the LiFePO4/Li cells assembled with HGPEs exhibit good cycling performance and rate capability. The initial discharge capacity of LiFePO4/HGPEs-3/Li is 156.6 mAh g−1 at a current rate of 0.1C at 26 °C. The capacity of LiFePO4/HGPEs-3/Li after 100 cycles is 131.7 mAh g−1 with a high coulombic efficiency over 99% throughout the whole cycling process.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the auspices from the Natural Science Foundation of China (52173259), the Municipal Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai 2014 (Grant NO. 14ZR1414700), Engineering Research Center of Material Composition and Advanced Dispersion Technology, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of New Materials and Application for Resources and Environment (21DZ2280600), the Professional and Technical Service Platform for Designing and Manufacturing of Advanced Composite Materials (Shanghai) (19DZ2293100), Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission. We thank Prof. H. Zhang at Instrumental Analysis & Research Center of Shanghai University for assistance with the XRD measurements.

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    Liya Chen, Jifang Fu, Xingfa Zeng, Jia Zhou, Peisong Zong, Feng Zheng, Yang Liu & Liyi Shi

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Chen, L., Fu, J., Zeng, X. et al. Hybrids gel electrolytes with pending polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane toward improving interfacial stability for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Materials Research 37, 3906–3921 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-022-00529-x

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