Preface to the Special Issue of ChemSusChem on Organic Batteries

Philippe Poizot; Yan Yao; Jun Chen; Ulrich S Schubert

doi:10.1002/cssc.202001022

Preface to the Special Issue of ChemSusChem on Organic Batteries

ChemSusChem. 2020 May 8;13(9):2107-2109. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202001022. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Authors

Philippe Poizot¹, Yan Yao², Jun Chen³, Ulrich S Schubert^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Université de Nantes, CNRS, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, IMN, 44000, Nantes, France.
² Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 4726 Calhoun Rd, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
³ Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center, RECAST, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.
⁴ Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstrasse 10, 07743, Jena, Germany.
⁵ Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7a, 07743, Jena, Germany.

PMID: 32347656
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001022

Abstract

All about Organic: Guest Editors Philippe Poizot, Yan Yao, Jun Chen, and Ulrich S. Schubert provide their thoughts on organic batteries-the challenges they face, their advantages and disadvantages, and what needs to be done to make them a commercially viable option-in this preface to a special issue of ChemSusChem on organic batteries, with highly interesting contributions from scientists around the world.

Keywords: batteries; biomass; electrolytes; polymers; redox reactions.

Publication types

Editorial