Research
Switchable nucleophile-electrophile chemistry enables functional four-electron Li-I 2 batteries
The Brief
- Researchers report a polarity-switchable phthalimide that promotes I⁻/I⁰/I⁺ redox through tunable Lewis interactions.
- The work demonstrates a four-electron Li-I2 battery, versus the conventional iodine conversion pathway.
- The paper was published online in Nature Communications on 11 November 2026.
Why it matters
Iodine multi-electron conversion is central to high-performance Li-I2 batteries, so a route that uses more electrons per iodine atom bears directly on how such batteries could be designed.
Who’s affected
- battery researchers
- electrochemists working on energy storage
- #lithium-iodine batteries
- #redox chemistry
- #energy storage
- #iodine chemistry
- #lithium batteries
Nature Communications, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-79413-9 Iodine multi-electron conversion is crucial for high-performance Li-I2 batteries. Here, authors introduce a polarity switchable phthalimide that promotes I − /I0/I⁺ redox via tunable Lewis…
Timeline
Paper published online in Nature Communications (doi:10.1038/s41467-026-79413-9)
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Switchable nucleophile-electrophile chemistry enables functional four-electron Li-I 2 batteries