Jack W Jordan, Ganesh Vailaya, Conrad Holc, Max Jenkins, Rory C McNulty, Constantin Puscalau, Begum Tokay, Andrea Laybourn, Xiangwen Gao, Darren A Walsh, Graham N Newton, Peter G Bruce, Lee R Johnson
The lithium-air (Li-air) battery offers one of the highest practical specific energy densities of any battery system at >400 W h kgsystem -1 . The practical cell is expected to operate in air, which is flowed into the positive porous electrode where it forms Li2 O2 on discharge and is released as O2 on charge. The presence of CO2 and H2 O in the gas stream leads to the formation of oxidatively robust side products, Li2 CO3 and LiOH, respectively. Thus, a gas handling system is needed to control the flow and remove CO2 and H2 O from the gas supply...
October 17, 2023: Faraday Discussions