Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 238-247Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b05253
Keywords
organic batteries; organic cathodes; redox polymers; phenoxazine; phenothiazine; cross-linking; pi-interactions; high rate capability; fast charging; transition metalfree
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- German Research Foundation [ES 361/2-1, ES 361/4-1, INST 40/467-1 FUGG, WI 2929/15-1]
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [03XP0140]
- State of Baden-Wurttemberg through bwHPC
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Organic cathode materials are attractive for a new generation of more sustainable batteries due to their comparably low environmental footprint and toxicity. There is a continued quest for new compounds that meet the requirements of a competitive potential and a good cycling performance. We herein present phenoxazine-based polymers as cathode materials with good cycling stability, excellent rate performance, and a high discharge potential of 3.52 V vs Li vertical bar Li+ in composite electrodes. At the ultra-fast rate of 100C, a cross-linked phenoxazine poly(vinylene) showed only slow capacity decay over 10 000 cycles with a capacity retention of 74% in cycle 10 000. Mechanistic investigations using UV/vis/near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations unveiled that unlike in the homologous phenothiazine polymers, pi-interactions played a minor role in phenoxazine-based polymers. Our study is the first to present phenoxazine as a redox-active unit for cathode materials and shows that an elemental change of one atom (S vs O compared to known phenothiazine-based polymers) can have a profound effect on electrochemical performance.
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