An Introduction to Redox Polymers for Energy-Storage Applications

1. Introduction and History: Polymers and Batteries 2. Polymer-based Batteries 3. Synthesis of Redox Polymers 4. Conductive Polymers, as Active Materials 5. Sulfur-containing Polymers, as Active Materials 6. Radical-containing Polymers, as Active Materials 7. Carbonyl-containing Polymers, as Active Materials 8. Nitrogen-containing Polymers, as Active Materials 9. Metal-containing Polymers, as Active Materials 10. Redox-active Inorganic Polymers 11. Exam Preparation: Questions and Answers

Ulrich S. Schubert was born in Tübingen (Germany) in 1969. He studied chemistry in Frankfurt and Bayreuth (both Germany) and at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (USA). His PhD studies were performed at the Universities of Bayreuth and South Florida. After a postdoctoral training with J.-M. Lehn at the University of Strasbourg (France), he moved to the TU Munich (Germany) and obtained his Habilitation in 1999. During 1999-2000 he was Professor at the University of Munich, and during 2000-2007 Full-Professor at the TU Eindhoven (the Netherlands). Since 2007, he is a Full-Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Prof. Schubert is founder and director of the Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM) and the Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena). He received a VICI award of the Netherland Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and is fellow of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Division (USA), the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, UK) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI, USA). Prof. Schubert is elected member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and external scientific member of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPI for Colloid & Interfaces, Golm). He has currently an h-Index of 108 and is since 2014 is listed as ISI "Highly cited researcher". Andreas Winter was born in Herne (Germany) in 1972 and studied chemistry at the University of Dortmund (Germany) where he graduated in organic chemistry in 1999. In 2003 he received his PhD in chemistry (University of Paderborn, Germany) for work on applications of the Mannich reaction in the synthesis of pyridine derivatives under supervision of Prof. N. Risch, and stayed on as a postdoc. Subsequently, in 2005 he joined the group of Prof. U. S. Schubert at the TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 2010, he moved with group from there to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. His research is focused on the synthesis of