A team at Imperial College London have developed organic electrode materials which could provide the solution to sustainable energy storage.
Electrochemical energy storage is crucial to the success of Net Zero strategies which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase clean energy outputs. There are growing concerns about the high cost, toxicity, environmental pollution, and end-of-life recycling of lithium-ion batteries, which currently dominate the market of portable electronics and electric vehicles. Sustainable organic electrode materials hold the potential to replace these conventional inorganic materials, but they have previously been limited by performance challenges.
Now, an international team led by Dr Qilei Song at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Imperial College…