An in-situ Fabricated Graphene/bi-polar Polymer Hybrid Material Delivers Ultra-long Cycle Life over 15,000 cycles as a High-performance Electrode Material.

Organic electrode materials are promising for the future energy storage systems owing to their tunable structures, abundant resources and environmental friendliness etc. Many advanced lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with organic electrodes are developed and show excellent performance. However, developing organic materials with overall superior performance still face great challenges such as low capacity, poor stability, inferior conductivity and low utilization of active sites. To address these issues, a bi-polar polymer (Fc-DAB) is designed and further polymerized in-situ with three-dimensional graphene (3DG), offering a hybrid material (Fc-DAB@3DG) with a variety of merits. Fc-DAB possesses stable polymer backbone and multiple redox-active sites that could improve stability and capacity simultaneously. The imbedded highly conductive 3DG network endows Fc-DAB@3DG with stable conductive framework, large surface area and porous morphology all together, so the fast ions/electrons diffusion could be achieved, leading to high utilization of active sites and enhanced electrochemical performance. As a result, Fc-DAB@3DG cathode delivers capacity of ∼260 mA h g -1 at 25 mA g -1 , ultra-long cycle life over 15,000 cycles at 2,000 mA g -1 with retention of 99.999% per cycle and remarkable rate performance. The quasi-solid Li metal battery and full cell fabricated using this material also exhibit superior electrochemical performance. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.