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Protocol of Electrochemical Test and Characterization of Aprotic Li-O2 Battery
Published on: July 12, 2016
Comment on "Cycling Li-O₂ batteries via LiOH formation and decomposition"
Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan1, Vikram Pande2, K M Abraham3
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. venkvis@cmu.edu.
Abstract:
Based on a simple thermodynamic analysis, we show that iodide-mediated electrochemical decomposition of lithium hydroxide (LiOH) likely occurs through a different mechanism than that proposed by Liu et al (Research Article, 30 October 2015, p. 530). The mismatch in thermodynamic potentials for iodide/triiodide (I(-)/I3 (-)) redox and O2 evolution from LiOH implies a different active iodine/oxygen electrochemistry on battery charge. It is therefore possible that the system described in Liu et al may not form the basis for a rechargeable lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) battery.
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