A novel Sn-based coordination polymer with high-efficiency and ultrafast lithium storage

Abstract Recently, Coordination Polymers (CPs) have been widely utilized as energy storage materials for reversible Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) benefiting from their tunable building blocks and adjusted electrochemical properties. However, the unsatisfied electrochemical behavior of CPs with poor conductivity and sluggish ion transport kinetics is still a bottle-neck for their large-scale energy storage applications in LIBs. Herein, we display the rational fabrication of a conductive Sn-based coordination polymer (Sn-DHTPA) via judiciously choosing suitable building units. The Sn-DHTPA is employed as anode for LIBs, exhibiting superior reversible storage capacity of 1142.6 mA h g−1 at 0.1 A g−1 after 100 cycles and impressive rate storage capability of 287.7 mA h g−1 at 20 A g−1. More importantly, a robust cycling performance of 205.5 mA h g−1 at an extra-high current density of 20 A g−1 are observed without remarkable capacity-fading up to 1000 cycles. The behavior superiority of Sn-DHTPA is related to its advanced architecture with abundant lithium storage sites, high electrical conductivity and rapid lithium transport. A series of ex-situ characterizations reveal that the impressive lithium storage capacity is contributed by the redox active sites of both the aromatic linker and metal center related to in-situ generated metallic nanoparticles dispersed in the skeleton.