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A novel nitroxide radical polymer-containing conductive polyaniline as molecular skeleton: its synthesis and electrochemical properties as organic cathode

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A novel nitroxide radical-containing aniline, 4-(6-(2-amino-phenol-9H-yl)hexanoyloxy)-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yloxy (AnT), was synthesized, and the copolymers of AnT and aniline (P (An-co-AnT)) were then prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization. The introduction of polyaniline (PAn) skeleton in copolymers improved the charge migration along polymer backbone, and the increased ratio of An/AnT monomer makes PAn’s anodic peak in copolymers shift to negative potential and the redox peaks for the nitroxide radical shift to the positive potential. Also, P (An-co-AnT) exhibited a gradually increased charged specific capacity from 120.1 to 141.0 mAh g−1 with increasing the feeding ratio of AnT/An, while the discharge specific capacity presented an opposite result. Specially, P (An-co-AnT) exhibited an obvious charge voltage platform and an even improved cycling stability than that of PAn in the high feeding ratio of AnT/An, and after 20 cycles, the discharge capacity of P (An-co-AnT) (1:1 ([An]/[AnT])) still maintained 82.7 % of the capacity obtained at the initial cycle.

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The Project was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51573099), the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province, China (Grant No.2015020441), and the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China (Grant No. 2015M570524). This work also was supported by the analysis and testing foundation of the Zhejiang University of Technology.

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    Lihuan Xu, Guosheng Wang & Chang Su

  2. State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Chaowang Road 18#, Hangzhou, 310014, People’s Republic of China

    Lvlv Ji & Cheng Zhang

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Xu, L., Ji, L., Wang, G. et al. A novel nitroxide radical polymer-containing conductive polyaniline as molecular skeleton: its synthesis and electrochemical properties as organic cathode. Ionics 22, 1377–1385 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-016-1663-8

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