TY - JOUR AB - Aromatic organic compounds can be used as electrode materials in rechargeable batteries and are expected to advance the development of both anode and cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). However, most aromatic organic compounds assessed as anode materials in SIBs to date exhibit significant degradation issues under fast-charge/discharge conditions and unsatisfying long-term cycling performance. Now, a molecular design concept is presented for improving the stability of organic compounds for battery electrodes. The molecular design of the investigated compound, [2.2.2.2]paracyclophane-1,9,17,25-tetraene (PCT), can stabilize the neutral state by local aromaticity and the doubly reduced state by global aromaticity, resulting in an anode material with extraordinarily stable cycling performance and outstanding performance under fast-charge/discharge conditions, demonstrating an exciting new path for the development of electrode materials for SIBs and other types of batteries. AU - Eder,S AU - Yoo,D-J AU - Nogala,W AU - Pletzer,M AU - Santana,Bonilla A AU - White,AJP AU - Jelfs,KE AU - Heeney,M AU - Choi,JW AU - Glöcklhofer,F DO - 10.1002/anie.202003386 EP - 12964 PY - 2020/// SN - 1433-7851 SP - 12958 TI - Switching between local and global aromaticity in a conjugated macrocycle for high-performance organic sodium-ion battery anodes T2 - Angewandte Chemie International Edition UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202003386 UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32368821 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202003386 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79534 VL - 59 ER -