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Published on: November 11, 2013
Carbon-Rich Active Materials with Macrocyclic Nanochannels for High-Capacity Negative Electrodes in All-Solid-State
Sota Sato1,2, Atsushi Unemoto2, Takuji Ikeda3
1JST, ERATO, Isobe Degenerate π-Integration Project and Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
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.

