Charge/discharge processes of organic radical batteries based on the radical polymer's redox reaction are largely influenced by carbon fibers consisting in the composite electrodes to help electron transfer. To find the optimal structure of the composite electrodes, the dominant electron transfer processes were determined by ac impedance measurement of the composite electrodes. A strong correlation between the overall electron transfer resistance of the composite electrodes and the materials of the current collector suggests that the electric conduction to the current collector through the contact resistance should be crucial. It was also confirmed that the charge/discharge performance of the composite electrode was related to the overall electron transfer resistance of the composite electrode. These results indicated that the charge/discharge performance of the radical battery was dominated by the interfacial electron transfer processes at the current collector/carbon fiber interface and that the rate performance would be much improved by suitably designing the interfacial structure.
The oxidation reactions of hydroquinones, 2-naphthols, or 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol efficiently occurred by catalysis with alumina-supported copper(II) sulfate to give the corresponding benzoquinones, 1,1'-bi-2-naphthols, and 4,4'-diphenoquinone, respectively, in good yields. The synthetic potentiality of the catalytic reactions was demonstrated by easy isolation of the final products using only filtration and solvent evaporation as well as by application to large-scale syntheses of the benzoquinones and binaphthols. The catalysis with alumina-supported copper(II) sulfate was also applied to the oxidative intramolecular coupling of 5,5'-diacenaphthene to the corresponding perylene compound.
Sandwich cells of C60 thin film with a front Al electrode reveal considerable rectifying effects and large photocurrents (quantum yields ≤54%) under air. The action spectra closely follow the optical absorption spectrum of the film. The relationship between photocurrent (Jph) and incident light intensity (Pin) changes from Jph∝(Pin)0.95±0.05 at Pin<3×10−7 W/cm2 to Jph∝(Pin)0.53±0.03 at higher Pin, suggesting that the photocurrent is controlled by the interaction of excitons with impurity sites at surface and near-surface of C60 in the absence and presence of bimolecular recombination depending on light intensity.
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