Organic Cathodes, a Path toward Future Sustainable Batteries: Mirage or Realistic Future?

J Bitenc, K Pirnat, O Luzanin, R Dominko - Chemistry of Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
Organic active materials are seen as next-generation battery materials that could circumvent
the sustainability and cost limitations connected with the current Li-ion battery technology …

Review of Local In Situ Probing Techniques for the Interfaces of Lithium‐Ion and Lithium–Oxygen Batteries

P Schwager, H Bülter, I Plettenberg… - Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Electrodes in lithium‐ion and post‐lithium‐ion batteries are made of composite materials
exposing a variety of different surfaces towards the electrolyte. This causes a distribution of …

Nanostructured poly (hydroquinonyl-benzoquinonyl sulfide)/multiwalled carbon nanotube composite cathodes: improved synthesis and performance for rechargeable …

R Narayan, A Blagojević, G Mali… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cost-effective, simple, and easily reproducible synthesis methods of polymers are of
profound significance when it comes to extracting high battery performance metrics from …

Poly (hydroquinoyl-benzoquinonyl sulfide) as an active material in Mg and Li organic batteries

J Bitenc, K Pirnat, G Mali, B Novosel… - Electrochemistry …, 2016 - Elsevier
Herein a novel solvothermal synthesis approach for preparing poly (hydrobenzoquinonyl-
benzoquinonyl sulfide) polymer (PHBQS) using sulfur and hydroquinone is presented. We …

Redox mediators for faster lithium peroxide oxidation in a lithium–oxygen cell: a scanning electrochemical microscopy study

B Krueger, KK Rücker, G Wittstock - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The reoxidation of Li2O2 as a discharge product of a Li–O2 cell occurs with high
overpotential at the three-phase boundary between the electron conductor of the positive …

In situ quantification of the swelling of graphite composite electrodes by scanning electrochemical microscopy

H Bülter, F Peters, J Schwenzel… - Journal of the …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The physical swelling of uncharged graphite composite electrodes due to electrolyte-binder
interactions is investigated by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) using 2, 5-di …

The electrochemical behaviors of Li2C8H4O6 and its corresponding organic acid C8H6O6 as anodes for Li-ion batteries

Q Deng, J Xue, W Zou, L Wang, A Zhou, J Li - Journal of Electroanalytical …, 2016 - Elsevier
A functional organic small molecule anode material (dilithium 2, 5-dihydroxyterephthalate, Li
2 DHTP) is synthesized via a simple wet chemistry methodology adopting 2, 5 …

Redox‐Active Functionalized Graphene Nanoribbons as Electrode Material for Li‐Ion Batteries

K Pirnat, J Bitenc, I Jerman, R Dominko… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Redox‐active organic materials offer high theoretical capacities; however, most organic
materials show drastic capacity fading during cycling, mainly caused by the dissolution of …

New tetralactam hosts for squaraine dyes

JM Dempsey, QW Zhang, AG Oliver… - Organic & biomolecular …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The photophysical properties of a deep-red fluorescent squaraine dye can be improved by
encapsulating it within a tetralactam macrocycle. Three new tetralactams are described with …

On the improved electrochemistry of hybrid conducting-redox polymer electrodes

L Sieuw, B Ernould, JF Gohy, A Vlad - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The electrochemistry of poly (2, 5-dihydroxyaniline)(PDHA), a novel hybrid
molecular configuration with redox active sites and electrical charge conduction along the …