Building Topological‐Disordered High‐Entropy Amorphous Oxides for Adaptive Compensation During Alternating CO <sub>2</sub> Redox Cycling
Material fatigue from alternating structural evolution degrades electrochemical performance through local collapse and deactivation, with the key challenge being preservation of active-site durability. To minimize structural deformation while sustaining reaction kinetics, topological disorder engineering offers a synergistic pathway integrating energy level mergence with high structural freedom. Here, we propose high-entropy amorphous oxides (HEAOs) as a model system featuring intrinsic self-adaptive topological disorder. Their dynamic metal-oxygen coordination network enables exceptional structural relaxation, where flexible M-O-M linkages and multicomponent integration cooperatively induce d-d electron transfer and/or d-p orbital coupling. These electronic interactions trigger localized charge redistribution for self-adaptive compensation under alternating electrochemical conditions such as CO<sub>2</sub> reduction/evolution. In Li-CO<sub>2</sub> batteries, HEAOs deliver an ultra-high discharge voltage of 3.14 V after long-term cycling at 100 µA cm<sup>-2</sup>, while maintaining ∼90% energy efficiency across different current densities. Unlike conventional strategies emphasizing local structural tuning, this work shifts the focus to long-range integrity engineering to suppress electrochemical fatigue. The self-adaptive compensation of HEAOs arises from responsive topologically disordered metal-oxygen polyhedra, effectively mitigating strain accumulation and redefining long-range topological adaptability as a key design principle for fatigue-resistant electrochemical materials.
Authors
- Xingwu Zhai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3591-7957)
- Tianqi Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-6344)
- Yu Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3092-5122)
- Leyi Su
- Tianchen Wei
- S.C. Chen
- Yuchun Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0099-0887)
- Jing Zhang
- Xinyun Wang
- Min Zhou
- Zhixin Sun
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Hefei National Center for Physical Sciences at Nanoscale (CN)
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2025-12-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202523507
- Primary Topic
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00