Solvent activity in electrolyte solutions controls electrochemical reactions in Li-Ion and Li-Sulfur batteries

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3957-3970

  Moon, Heejoon ^a   Mandai, Toshihiko ^a   Tatara, Ryoichi ^a   Ueno, Kazuhide ^a   Yamazaki, Azusa ^a   Yoshida, Kazuki ^a   Seki, Shiro ^b   Dokko, Kaoru ^a,c   Watanabe, Masayoshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CORROSION; AMIDES; BINARY ALLOYS; CORROSION RATE; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; IONS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM METALLOGRAPHY; LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; MOLAR RATIO; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; SOLUBILITY; SOLVATION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; ION INTERCALATION; ION-ION INTERACTION; OXIDATIVE STABILITY; POSITIVE ELECTRODES; PULSED-FIELD-GRADIENT SPIN-ECHO-NMR; SOLVATION STRUCTURE;

ELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84923974527     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5128578     Document Type: Article

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