Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Probing electrochemical reactions in organic cathode materials via in operando infrared spectroscopy

  • Alen Vizintin,
  • Jan Bitenc,
  • Anja Kopač Lautar,
  • Klemen Pirnat,
  • Jože Grdadolnik,
  • Jernej Stare,
  • Anna Randon-Vitanova,
  • Robert Dominko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03114-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Metal-organic batteries are gaining traction as versatile, low-cost, and sustainable devices, although there are still few ways to probe internal behavior during use. Here, the authors explore organic-molecule structural changes within several battery systems by in operando infrared spectroscopy.