By NanoSciTec
Nanoscitec battery team intends to produce new hybrid batteries using a novel generation of polymeric platforms by imitating the architecture of natural photosynthetic dyes with superior electrochemical features. This kind of polymer material presents lower toxicity, lower cost, and fulfilling sustainable energy storage requirements. One group of these materials are from the family of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are analogous to highly porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with incredible features. COFs lack heavy metal ions and provide high surface area, high porosity, low density, and a high potential for energy storage applications. The highly tunable features of COFs enable us to design a novel generation of COF platforms using bio-based units. Furthermore, this kind of synthetic COFs can present a way to control and optimize material properties to overcome some inherent electrochemical limitations and develop a new generation of Li-ion batteries. They possess high and permanent structural porosity, providing rapid charge diffusion and high surface area. The crystalline and long-range ordered structure of COFs can prevent undesirable exciton recombination and trapping. Hence, COFs, in the overall view, are convenient options for use in photoactive polymeric platforms and electron generation processes and suitable for applying in Li-ion batteries.
