Carbon-Rich Active Materials with Macrocyclic Nanochannels for High-Capacity Negative Electrodes in All-Solid-State Lithium Rechargeable Batteries

Sota Sato; Atsushi Unemoto; Takuji Ikeda; Shin-Ichi Orimo; Hiroyuki Isobe

doi:10.1002/smll.201600916

Carbon-Rich Active Materials with Macrocyclic Nanochannels for High-Capacity Negative Electrodes in All-Solid-State Lithium Rechargeable Batteries

Small. 2016 Jul;12(25):3381-7. doi: 10.1002/smll.201600916. Epub 2016 May 13.

Authors

Sota Sato^{1

2}, Atsushi Unemoto², Takuji Ikeda³, Shin-Ichi Orimo^{2

4}, Hiroyuki Isobe^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ JST, ERATO, Isobe Degenerate π-Integration Project and Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
² Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
³ Research Institute for Chemical Process Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Miyagino-ku, Sendai, 983-8551, Japan.
⁴ Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.

PMID: 27173002
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201600916

Abstract

A high-capacity electrode active material with macrocyclic nanochannels is developed for a negative electrode of lithium batteries. With appropriate design of the molecular and crystal structures, a ubiquitous chemical commonly available in reagent stocks of any chemistry laboratories, naphthalene, was transformed into a high-performance electrode material for all-solid-state lithium batteries.

Keywords: X-ray diffraction; lithium batteries; macrocylic molecules; negative electrode materials.