Enhancing electrochemical intermediate solvation through electrolyte anion selection to increase nonaqueous Li-O2 battery capacity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 9293-9298

  Burke, Colin M ^a,b   Pande, Vikram ^c   Khetan, Abhishek ^d   Viswanathan, Venkatasubramanian ^c   McCloskey, Bryan D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Donor number; Li air battery; Lithium nitrate; NMR; Solubility

Indexed keywords

ANION; COUNTERION; ELECTROLYTE; LITHIUM ION; NITRATE; SOLVENT; SUPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; SOLVATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84938150482     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505728112     Document Type: Article

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