Water-soluble Polypyrrole-Polybis(4-oxy benzene sulfonic acid)phosphazene Composites and Investigation of Their Performance as Cathode Binder in Li-ion Batteries.

Current electric storage systems eagerly focus on high-power and energy-dense Lithium-ion batteries to cope with increasing energy storage demands. Since cathode materials are one of the bottlenecks of these batteries, there is much interest in layered lithium-rich manganese oxide-based (LLMO) cathodes which can develop this technology. However, Initial Coulombic Efficiency (ICE) loss, poor rate performance and cycling instability issues are still persistent as problems to be solved for these materials.

Intramolecular excimer formation in hexakis(pyrenyloxy)cyclotriphosphazene: photophysical properties, crystal structure, and theoretical investigation.

A hexakis(pyrenyloxy)cyclotriphosphazene is synthesized by the reaction of N3P3Cl6 with 2-hydroxypyrene, and its excimer emission through intramolecular interactions in solution and in the solid state has been investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Thermal and electrochemical properties were investigated. A DFT benchmark study has been performed to evaluate the intramolecular interactions and molecular orbital levels by comparing with the experimental results.

Dimorphism in 4,4,6,6-tetrachloro-2,2-(2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-dioxy)cyclotriphosphazene and 6,6-dichloro-2,2:4,4-bis(2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-dioxy)cyclotriphosphazene.

A second, polymorphic, form of the previously reported compound 4,4,6,6-tetrachloro-2,2-(2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-dioxy)cyclotriphosphazene, C(5)H(10)Cl(4)N(3)O(2)P(3), is now reported. The molecular structures of these two compounds are similar, aside from minor conformational differences. However, the compounds crystallize in two different space groups and exhibit quite different crystal structure assemblies.