Biography
Biography: Elise Deunf
Abstract
Routine access to power sources is an essential factor for developing our technology-oriented society and ensuring a better quality of life. In this context, while the implementation of renewable energy sources is in progress, electrical energy storage (EES) systems are set to play a central and potentially critical role in the next-generation energy infrastructure. Faced with a worldwide demand for powering electrified vehicles and electronic devices of all kinds, accelerated progress and innovation in the development of new and potentially “greener” electrochemical storage solutions are thus imperative. Based on the tailoring of naturally abundant chemical elements (C, H, N, O, S, in particular), organic chemistry provides great opportunities for finding innovative electrode materials able to operate in aqueous or nonaqueous electrolytes.1 Along this line, significant progress has been achieved these last ten years on redox-active organic compounds, bringing them to the attention of the energy storage community.
Indeed, organic chemistry provides great opportunities for discovering innovative electrode materials able to operate both in aqueous and nonaqueous electrolytes. Additionally, it must be pointed out that two types of electrochemical insertion mechanisms can be used in practice with either reversible uptake/release of cations or anions (figure 1a, 1b respectively). In this communication, we will present recent advances on organic host materials and will particularly report on small organic compounds based on aromatic core structures that are functionalized by redox-active groups such as enolate and amine, and which able to reversibly host cations or anions by electrochemical reaction