Hollow Fe3O4/carbon with surface mesopores derived from MOFs for enhanced lithium storage performance

Qiuying Yi; Mengmeng Du; Bin Shen; Jiahui Ji; Chencheng Dong; Mingyang Xing; Jinlong Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.scib.2019.11.004

Hollow Fe₃O₄/carbon with surface mesopores derived from MOFs for enhanced lithium storage performance

Sci Bull (Beijing). 2020 Feb 15;65(3):233-242. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2019.11.004. Epub 2019 Nov 6.

Authors

Qiuying Yi¹, Mengmeng Du¹, Bin Shen¹, Jiahui Ji¹, Chencheng Dong¹, Mingyang Xing², Jinlong Zhang³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
² Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. Electronic address: mingyangxing@ecust.edu.cn.
³ Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. Electronic address: jlzhang@ecust.edu.cn.

PMID: 36659177
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2019.11.004

Abstract

Hollow metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their derivatives have attracted more and more attention due to their high specific surface area and perfect morphological structure, which determine their large potential application in energy storage and catalysis fields. However, few researchers have carried out further modification on the outer shell of hollow MOFs, such as the perforation modification, which will endow hollow nanomaterials derived from MOFs with multifunctionality. In this paper, hollow MOFs of MIL-53(Fe) with perforated outer surface are successfully synthesized by using SiO₂ nanospheres as the template via a self-assembly process induced by the coordination polymerization. The tightly packed mesopore structure makes the carbon outer shell of MOFs thinner, thus realizing the in-situ transformation from MOFs to hollow Fe₃O₄/carbon, which exhibits perfect capacity approaching 1270 mA h g^-1 even after 200 cycles at 0.1 A g^-1, as an anode material in lithium ion batteries (LIBs) application. This research provides a new strategy for the design and preparation of MOFs and their derivatives with multifunctionality for the energy applications.

Keywords: Hollow Fe(3)O(4)/carbon; Hollow MOFs; Lithium ion batteries; Mesopore modification.