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KOH-assisted aqueous synthesis of bimetallic metal-organic frameworks and their derived selenide composites for efficient lithium storage

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To solve low efficiency, environmental pollution, and toxicity for synthesizing zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) in organic solvents, a KOH-assisted aqueous strategy is proposed to synthesize bimetallic ZIFs polyhedrons, which are used as precursors to prepare bimetallic selenide and N-doped carbon (NC) composites. Among them, Fe-Co-Se/NC retains the three-dimensional (3D) polyhedrons with mesoporous structure, and Fe-Co-Se nanoparticles are uniform in size and evenly distributed. When assessed as anode material for lithium-ion batteries, Fe-Co-Se/NC achieves an excellent initial specific capacity of 1165.9 mAh·g−1 at 1.0 A·g−1, and the reversible capacity of Fe-Co-Se/NC anode is 1247.4 mAh·g−1 after 550 cycles. It is attributed to that the uniform composite of bimetallic selenides and N-doped carbon can effectively tune redox active sites, the stable 3D structure of Fe-Co-Se/NCs guarantees the structural stability and wettability of the electrolyte, and the uniform distribution of Fe-Co-S nanoparticles in size esuppresses the volume expansion and accelerates the electrochemical reaction kinetics.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52102100), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK2018 1469), and the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, China (No. 2020A1515110035).

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  1. School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China

    Shuya Zhang, Yanchun Xue, Yutang Zhang, Chengxing Zhu, **ngmei Guo, Fu Cao, **angjun Zheng & Junhao Zhang

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    **ngmei Guo & Tongxiang Fan

  3. School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, China

    Qinghong Kong

  4. Foshan (Southern China) Institute for New Materials, Foshan, 528200, China

    **ngmei Guo

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Zhang, S., Xue, Y., Zhang, Y. et al. KOH-assisted aqueous synthesis of bimetallic metal-organic frameworks and their derived selenide composites for efficient lithium storage. Int J Miner Metall Mater 30, 601–610 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-022-2539-8

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