Bicarbazole-based redox-active covalent organic frameworks for ultrahigh-performance energy storage

A highly redox-active building block, bicarbazole, is developed as a monomer for designing crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks and is successfully integrated to the vertices of microporous tetragonal frameworks, leading to densely aligned redox-active arrays. The frameworks with large porosity and high accessibility of the redox-active sites exhibit synergistic structural effects and ultrahigh-performance energy storage.