Pushing Up Lithium Storage through Nanostructured Polyazaacene Analogues as Anode

Abstract According to the evidence from both theoretical calculations and experimental findings, conjugated ladder polymers containing large π‐conjugated structure, a high number of nitrogen heteroatoms, and a multiring aromatic system, could be an ideal organic anode candidate for lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs). In this report, we demonstrated that the nanostructured polyazaacene analogue poly(1,6‐dihydropyrazino[2,3g]quinoxaline‐2,3,8‐triyl‐7‐(2 H )‐ylidene‐7,8‐dimethylidene) (PQL) shows high performance as anode materials in LIBs: high capacity (1750 mAh g −1 , 0.05C), good rate performance (303 mAh g −1 , 5C), and excellent cycle life (1000 cycles), especially at high temperature of 50 °C. Our results suggest nanostructured conjugated ladder polymers could be alternative electrode materials for the practical application of LIBs.