Flame‐Retardant Quasi‐Solid‐State Electrolytes From Self‐Assembled Azolate Hybrid Frameworks for Highly Safe Lithium Batteries
ABSTRACT Achieving quasi‐solid‐state electrolytes (QSSEs) that simultaneously deliver fast ion transport and intrinsic thermal safety remains a central challenge for lithium batteries, as improvements in ionic conductivity are often coupled with increased flammability and interfacial instability. Here, we present a spray‐assisted in situ assembly strategy to construct azolate hybrid frameworks (AHFs) directly on glass fiber substrates, followed by thermal polymerization to yield a chemically integrated QSSE. The heterocyclic AHF provides ordered lithium‐philic coordination sites and continuous ion‐transport pathways, enabling efficient Li + migration while maintaining high thermal robustness. As a result, the resulting LiFePO 4 |FP10v‐GF|Li cell sustains stable cycling for over 500 cycles at 25°C and 100 cycles at 60°C. Notably, the framework architecture enables molecular level confinement of triethyl phosphate (TEP) as a flame‐retardant component, establishing a nitrogen phosphorus synergistic flame‐retardant mechanism without compromising electrochemical compatibility. Consequently, high‐loading Li||LiFePO 4 cells exhibit stable cycling under practical conditions (E/C = 0.56 g Ah −1 , N/p = 3.27) and successfully withstand accelerated rate calorimetry tests from 25°C to 300°C without thermal runaway. This work demonstrates how framework chemistry and molecular confinement can be synergistically integrated to decouple ionic conductivity from flammability, providing a general design principle for intrinsically safe, high‐energy quasi‐solid‐state lithium batteries.
Authors
- Wenhuan Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-9373)
- Guoxiu Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4295-8578)
- Tian Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6597-4661)
- Peiyu Cui
- S D Wang
- Yuanyuan Tian
- Qimin Zhu
- Hong Wang
- Qing Ji
- Dong Zhou
Institutions
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Ningbo University of Technology (CN)
- Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (CN)
- Shanghai Chengtou (China) (CN)
- Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.1279221
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China