Development of polyaniline–lithium secondary battery

Abstract

Abstract A series of coin‐type lithium secondary batteries with polyaniline positive electrodes was developed and commercialized which might be not only the first practical polymer battery but also the first industrial application of conducting polymers. Performances of the commercialized batteries were described in detail in this paper. In order to achieve the development the most important thing was the optimization of molecular structure and molphology of multiguise polyaniline as the electrode material. According to the findings obtained during the development, polyaniline sheet was prepared substantially to be composed of imino‐1,4‐phenylene (IP) and the cation radical of IP (IP + ) by the novel procedure, not to include quinoid configuration of polyaniline (NP) which was proved to be electrochemically inactive in non‐aqueous systems.