Organic nanohybrids for fast and sustainable energy storage

Abstract

A nanohybridization strategy is presented for the fabrication of high performance lithium ion batteries based on redox-active organic molecules. The rearrangement of electroactive aromatic molecules from bulk crystalline particles into molecular layers is achieved by non-covalent nanohybridization of active molecules with conductive scaffolds. As a result, nanohybrid organic electrodes in the form of a flexible self-standing paper-free of binder/additive and current collector-are synthesized, which exhibit high energy and power densities combined with excellent cyclic stability. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.