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- Title
Singlet Oxygen Formation during the Charging Process of an Aprotic Lithium-Oxygen Battery.
- Authors
Wandt, Johannes; Jakes, Peter; Granwehr, Josef; Gasteiger, Hubert A.; Eichel, Rüdiger-A.
- Abstract
Aprotic lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to their outstanding theoretical energy density. A major challenge is their poor reversibility caused by degradation reactions, which mainly occur during battery charge and are still poorly understood. Herein, we show that singlet oxygen (1Δg) is formed upon Li2O2 oxidation at potentials above 3.5 V. Singlet oxygen was detected through a reaction with a spin trap to form a stable radical that was observed by time- and voltage-resolved in operando EPR spectroscopy in a purpose-built spectroelectrochemical cell. According to our estimate, a lower limit of approximately 0.5 % of the evolved oxygen is singlet oxygen. The occurrence of highly reactive singlet oxygen might be the long-overlooked missing link in the understanding of the electrolyte degradation and carbon corrosion reactions that occur during the charging of Li-O2 cells.
- Subjects
LITHIUM compounds; LITHIUM cells; REACTIVE oxygen species; ELECTRON paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; OXYGEN
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 24, p6892
- ISSN
1433-7851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/anie.201602142