Organic energy storage battery

Are organic rechargeable batteries sustainable?

Growing concerns about global environmental pollution have triggered the development of sustainable and eco-friendly battery chemistries. In that regard, organic rechargeable batteries are considered promising next-generation systems that could meet the demands of this age.

What is an organic battery?

In this Review, an organic battery is a battery that possesses at least one electrode with an organic redox-active material. If both electrodes are based on organic active materials, it is called an all-organic or fully organic battery (although the electrolyte can contain inorganic ions).

Are organic batteries a viable alternative to metal based systems?

Organic batteries, which utilize organic or polymeric active materials instead of metals or metal oxides, represent the most promising approach to overcome the technical and economical restrictions of the established metal-based systems.

Can organic materials be used to develop battery systems?

Nevertheless, due to the enormous success of graphite-based and inorganic electrode materials in both research and commercialization, organic materials have received very little attention in the past several decades for the development of battery systems.

Can organic active materials be used for electrochemical energy storage?

In particular, the replacement of environmentally questionable metals by more sustainable organic materials is on the current research agenda. This review presents recent results regarding the developments of organic active materials for electrochemical energy storage.

What enables long-life cycling of rechargeable organic batteries?

Bai, S. et al. Permselective metal–organic framework gel membrane enables long-life cycling of rechargeable organic batteries. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 77–84 (2021). Dong, H. et al. High-power Mg batteries enabled by heterogeneous enolization redox chemistry and weakly coordinating electrolytes. Nat. Energy 5, 1043–1050 (2020).