Poly(dihydroxybenzoquinone): its high-density and robust charge storage capability in rechargeable acidic polymer–air batteries

Abstract

A rechargeable acidic polymer–air battery was firstly fabricated, which exhibited a long-lifetime of >500 cycles and high rate capabilities.

Redox Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Microporous Polymers as Ultralong‐Lived Organic Anodes for Rechargeable Air Batteries

“…[6][7][8] Since the pioneer report by Nishide et al,s everal polymers bearing densely populated redox-active moieties have been developed as dendrite-free anodes and the assembled polymer-air batteries equipped with al ow mass loading of redox polymer layer exhibited excellent charge/discharge capability in aqueous electrolyte. [9][10][11][12] More recently,C hen et al assembled ac onjugated quinone polymer onto conducting carbon nanotubes as the anode,w hich improves the ion and charge transfer and thus achieve excellent performance even at arelatively high loading of anode-active polymer. [13] Despite exciting advances,rechargeable polymer-air batteries are still under development due to the limited choices of polymer anodes,c onsidering bifunctional air electrodes have been aggressively studied for metal-air batteries so far.…”

“…[13] Despite exciting advances,rechargeable polymer-air batteries are still under development due to the limited choices of polymer anodes,c onsidering bifunctional air electrodes have been aggressively studied for metal-air batteries so far. [14,15] Currently-available polymeric anodes are mainly based on nonporous linear polymers [9][10][11][12][13] with inferior ion transfer and insufficient robustness,t hereby constraining their electrochemical performance especially cycling stability.T hus, developing new robust polymer anodes with excellent reversibility for advanced long-lived polymer-air batteries is of great significance but also ag rand challenge.…”

Conducting Redox Polymer as a Robust Organic Electrode‐Active Material in Acidic Aqueous Electrolyte towards Polymer–Air Secondary Batteries

“…Previously, we reported quinone redox polymers as an anode‐active material for rechargeable air batteries . The use of organic polymers evades the detrimental dendrite problem and, furthermore, could be used in acidic aqueous electrolytes.…”

“…The use of organic polymers evades the detrimental dendrite problem and, furthermore, could be used in acidic aqueous electrolytes. Combined with a conventional Pt/C cathode catalyst we demonstrated a rechargeable polymer–air battery with a quinone polymer as anode that yielded a discharge voltage of 0.30–0.50 V and long life of over 500 cycles of charging/discharging . To achieve higher energy density, removal of conductive additives, and a polymer that can be reduced at a low potential are highly demanded.…”

Poly-anthraquinone sulfide isomers as electrode materials for extended operating temperature organic batteries

“…supercapacitors, 19 aqueous batteries 20 and hybrid systems. [21][22][23] Among the different families of OEM, 6 quinones and their derivatives appear to be the most promising type, 24,25 thanks to their high availability and the good electrochemical reversibility of their redox system. 26,27 However, the main drawback of quinone derivatives is their solubility in the organic solvents that are commonly used in lithium-ion batteries.…”