Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

A high capacity small molecule quinone cathode for rechargeable aqueous zinc-organic batteries

  • Zirui Lin,
  • Hua-Yu Shi,
  • Lu Lin,
  • Xianpeng Yang,
  • Wanlong Wu,
  • Xiaoqi Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24701-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The flexible structural design of organic materials make them promising candidates for cathode in rechargeable batteries. Here, the authors report a tetraamino-p-benzoquinone cathode which realizes facile proton conduction by the Grotthuss-type mechanism and shows excellent electrochemical performance.