Journal
ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 66-77Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b02783
Keywords
LiI; Li-O-2 batteries; LiOH formation; four-electron oxygen reduction; water clusters; molecular dynamics
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- EPSRC
- Innovate UK
- Swedish Research Council
- European Unions's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [696656 - GrapheneCorel]
- H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship
- Darwin College for Schlumberger Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/M009521/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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LiI-promoted LiOH formation in Li-O-2 batteries with wet ether electrolytes has been investigated by Raman, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, operando pressure tests, and molecular dynamics simulations. We find that LiOH formation is a synergistic effect involving both H2O and LiI additives, whereas with either alone Li2O2 forms. LiOH is generated via a nominal four-electron oxygen reduction reaction, the hydrogen coming from H2O and the oxygen from both O-2 and H2O, and with fewer side reactions than typically associated with Li2O2 formation; the presence of fewer parasitic reactions is attributed to the proton donor role of water, which can coordinate to O-2(-) and the higher chemical stability of LiOH. Iodide plays a catalytic role in decomposing H2O2/HO2- and thereby promoting LiOH formation, its efficacy being highly dependent on the water concentration. This iodide catalysis becomes retarded at high water contents due to the formation of large water-solvated clusters, and Li2O2 forms again.
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