Azo compounds as a family of organic electrode materials for alkali-ion batteries

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Abstract

Organic compounds are desirable for sustainable Li-ion batteries (LIBs), but the poor cycle stability and low power density limit their large-scale application. Here we report a family of organic compounds containing azo group (N=N) for reversible lithiation/ delithiation. Azobenzene-4,4′-dicarboxylic acid lithium salt (ADALS) with an azo group in the center of the conjugated structure is used as a model azo compound to investigate the electrochemical behaviors and reaction mechanism of azo compounds. In LIBs, ADALS can provide a capacity of 190 mAh g−1 at 0.5 C (corresponding to current density of 95 mA g−1) and still retain 90%, 71%, and 56% of the capacity when the current density is increased to 2 C, 10 C, and 20 C, respectively. Moreover, ADALS retains 89% of initial capacity after 5,000 cycles at 20 C with a slow capacity decay rate of 0.0023% per cycle, representing one of the best performances in all organic compounds. Superior electrochemical behavior of ADALS is also observed in Na-ion batteries, demonstrating that azo compounds are universal electrode materials for alkali-ion batteries. The highly reversible redox chemistry of azo compounds to alkali ions was confirmed by density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. It provides opportunities for developing sustainable batteries.

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Luo, C., Borodin, O., Ji, X., Hou, S., Gaskell, K. J., Fan, X., … Wang, C. (2018). Azo compounds as a family of organic electrode materials for alkali-ion batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(9), 2004–2009. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717892115

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