Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Advanced rechargeable aluminium ion battery with a high-quality natural graphite cathode

  • Di-Yan Wang,
  • Chuan-Yu Wei,
  • Meng-Chang Lin,
  • Chun-Jern Pan,
  • Hung-Lung Chou,
  • Hsin-An Chen,
  • Ming Gong,
  • Yingpeng Wu,
  • Chunze Yuan,
  • Michael Angell,
  • Yu-Ju Hsieh,
  • Yu-Hsun Chen,
  • Cheng-Yen Wen,
  • Chun-Wei Chen,
  • Bing-Joe Hwang,
  • Chia-Chun Chen,
  • Hongjie Dai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14283
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Rechargeable aluminium ion batteries are an emerging class of energy storage device. Here the authors reveal high-quality natural graphite as a promising cathode for Al-ion batteries, also identifying chloroaluminate anion intercalation in graphite by Raman spectroscopy.