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Organic Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries

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This chapter will review the recent advances on the development of organic electrode materials for their applications in three main areas, including rechargeable lithium batteries, sodium batteries and redox flow batteries. Four kinds of organic cathode materials, including conjugated carbonyl compounds, conducting polymers, organosulfides and free radical polymers, will be discussed in terms of their electrochemical performances in these three battery systems. Fundamental issues related to the synthesis-structure-activity correlations of these organic cathodes, as well as the working principles in these energy storage systems and their capacity fading mechanisms will also be discussed.

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