2020年11月23日
Material balance in the O2 electrode of Li-O2 cells with a porous carbon electrode and TEGDME-based electrolytes.
RSC advances
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- 巻
- 10
- 号
- 70
- 開始ページ
- 42971
- 終了ページ
- 42982
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1039/d0ra07924c
This work figures out the material balance of the reactions occurring in the O2 electrode of a Li-O2 cell, where a Ketjenblack-based porous carbon electrode comes into contact with a tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME)-based electrolyte under more practical conditions of less electrolyte amount and high areal capacity. The ratio of electrolyte weight to cell capacity (E/C, g A h-1) is a good parameter to correlate with cycle life. Only 5 cycles were obtained at an areal capacity of 4 mA h cm-2 (E/C = 10) and a discharge/charge current density of 0.4 mA cm-2, which corresponds to the energy density of 170 W h kg-1 at a complete cell level. When the areal capacity was decreased to half (E/C = 20) by setting a current density at 0.2 mA cm-2, the cycle life was extended to 18 cycles. However, the total electric charge consumed for parasitic reactions was 35 and 59% at the first and the third cycle, respectively. This surprisingly large amount of parasitic reactions was suppressed by half using redox mediators at 0.4 mA cm-2 while keeping a similar cycle life. Based on by-product distribution, we will propose possible mechanisms of TEGDME decomposition and report a water breathing behavior, where H2O is produced during charge and consumed during discharge.
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- DOI : 10.1039/d0ra07924c
- PubMed ID : 35514881
- PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC9058141