Composite Electrodes Containing Conducting Polymers and Li Alloys

Abstract

Attractive charge capacities, reversibility, and mechanical stability have been demonstrated at ambient temperature by composite film anodes of polyacetylene or poly(p‐phenylene) with or alloys. The alloys were dispersed in finely divided form throughout the conducting polymer matrix in a configuration that minimized alloy degradation processes associated with exfoliation, surface passivation, and inefficient Li diffusion.