Talk:Polymer-based battery

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 March 2019 and 5 June 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ala127.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 06:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Article Transformation
I am planning a complete update of this article as part of a polymer class.

Outline: Electrochemistry 1.Electrochemistry: In this section, I will detail the electrochemical reactions involved in polymer-based batteries. This section is included on most battery type Wikipedia pages and is important to establish an initial understanding of how these batteries work.

2. Charge and discharge: This is another common section on battery Wikipedia pages, and in the section I will briefly elaborate on the charging and discharging processes, as well as the effect of temperature on these processes.

3.Performance: Batteries are only of importance if they can demonstrate good performance, so this section is very important to include. I plan to include the specific energy density, volumetric energy density, and specific power density of current polymer-based batteries, and perhaps a note about the performance trend of these batteries over time.

4.Types of Active Materials: In this section, I will discuss characteristics, specific advantages, specific disadvantages and examples of the following types of active materials.

5.Conductive Additives: This is a section I am still considering adding but am not certain. Due to the low intrinsic conductivities of polymers, besides conjugated polymers, the preparation of composite electrodes consisting of a redox-active polymer active material and a conductive additive is a frequent approach to overcome this challenge.

6.Advantages: In this section, I will discuss the advantages of polymer-based batteries, especially in the context of other more commercialized batteries.

7.Challenges: In this section, I will discuss the disadvantages of polymer-based batteries, especially in the context of other more commercialized batteries.

8.Safety: Safety is a crucial component of commercialized battery science and it is therefore appropriate for it to have its own section. --Ala127 (talk) 15:51, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Polymer Battery generic
What comes to my mind when I hear polymer battery is the 2005 ORB based on the polyradical of the modified PTMA, or "2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinoxy-4-yl methacrylate," technology from Wesada U/NEC. It is my impression that Waseda has demonstrated a different strategy, or maybe merely different tactic, in 2007 based on "nitroxide radical groups," "a redox-active organic polymer film." Maybe the ORB article and this should be merged until the technology sorts out and then the ones that warrent expanded articles can be created? Mulp 22:13, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

this article needs to be rewritten
This isn't an encyclopedia article; it is a blurb for a financial magazine. In fact I'll bet it was lifted from just such a source.
 * Removed section that was a WP:COPYPASTE from PhysOrg.com.  Barkeep  Chat/''' 15:08, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

I came here to find out how polymer batteries work but I learned nothing that I didn't already know from reading the financial blurbs. Are these things actually batteries or are they capacitors? The article says they are a hybrid between batteries and capacitors because of their properties, but batteries and capacitors aren't distinguished by their external electrical properties; they are distinguished by how they work. Batteries contain an internal chemical source of EMF and capacitors work via electrical capacitance. These polymer-based "batteries" seem to be merely high-capacity capacitors, but it is impossible to tell from this article. --Dave Gudeman (talk) 19:20, 24 July 2011 (UTC)