Polymer-based Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Structure, Material Engineering, Device Performance and Challenges (Review)

Batteries are a major technological challenge in this new century as they are a key method to make use of energy efficiently. Nowadays Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) appeared to be one of the most important energy storage technologies. Today’s Li-ion technology has conquered the portable electronic markets and still on the track of fast development. The success of lithium-ion technology will depend largely on the cost, safety, cycle life, energy, and power, which are in turn determined by the component materials used for its fabrication. Accordingly, this review focuses on the challenges of organic based materials and prospects associated with the electrode materials. Specifically, the issues associated with organic based batteries, advances and prospects are presented. This review aims to summarize the fundamentals of the polymer-based material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and specifically highlight its recent major advancement in material design, challenges, performance and finally its prospects. We anticipate that this Review will inspire further improvement in organic electrolyte materials and the electrode for the battery as energy device storages. Some of these concepts, relying on new ways to prepare electrode materials by the use of eco-efficient processes, on the use of organic rather than inorganic materials in order to overcome environmental issues associated with their use. Organic electrodes are important for solid electrode batteries because they can make device cost-effective, allow flexibility, and can also enable the use of multivalent ions without the problems typically associated with inorganic compounds.