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Tailored architecture of composite electrolyte for all-solid-state sodium batteries with superior rate performance and cycle life

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Seeking for composite electrolytes reinforced all-solid-state sodium ion batteries with superior long lifespan and rate performance remains a great challenge. Here, a unique strategy to tailor the architecture of composite electrolyte via inserting polymer chains into a small quantity of sulfate sodium grafted C48H28O32Zr6 (UIOSNa) is proposed. The intimate contact between polymer segments and UIOSNa with limited pore size facilitates the anion immobilization of sodium salts and reduction of polymer crystallinity, thereby providing rapid ion conduction and reducing the adverse effect caused by the immigration of anions. The grafting of −SO3Na groups on fillers allows the free movement of more sodium ions to further improve \({t_{{\rm{N}}{{\rm{a}}^ + }}}\) and ionic conductivity. Consequently, even with the low content of UIOSNa fillers, a high ionic conductivity of 6.62 × 10−4 S·cm−1 at 60 °C and a transference number of 0.67 for the special designed composite electrolyte are achieved. The assembled all-solid-state sodium cell exhibits a remarkable rate performance for 500 cycles with 95.96% capacity retention at a high current rate of 4 C. The corresponding pouch cell can stably work for 1000 cycles with 97.03% capacity retention at 1 C, which is superior to most of the reported composite electrolytes in the literature.

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This work was financially supported by Basic and Applied Basic Research Project of Guangdong Province (Nos. 2022A1515011438 and 2023A1515011055), Basic Research Project of the Science and Technology Innovation Commission of Shenzhen (No. JCYJ20220531101013028), and Key Project of Shenzhen Basic Research (No. JCYJ2022081800003006). The authors appreciate Instrumental Analysis Center of Shenzhen University (Lihu Campus) for providing equipment for material characterization.

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Guan, X., Jian, Z., Liao, X. et al. Tailored architecture of composite electrolyte for all-solid-state sodium batteries with superior rate performance and cycle life. Nano Res. 17, 4171–4180 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-6354-y

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