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I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy	Understanding the charging mechanism of lithium-sulfur batteries using spatially resolved operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy Yelena Gorlin , Manu Patel Ubrani Mruthunjayappa , Anna Freiberg , Qi He , Michele Piana , Moniek Tromp , Hubert A. Gasteiger Journal Of The Electrochemical Society 163, A930 - A939 DOI: 10.1149/2.0631606jes Diamond Proposal Number(s): [8734] Open Access Show Abstract ▼ Abstract: Replacement of conventional cars with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) offers an opportunity to significantly reduce future carbon dioxide emissions. One possible way to facilitate widespread acceptance of BEVs is to replace the lithium-ion batteries used in existing BEVs with a lithium-sulfur battery, which operates using a cheap and abundant raw material with a high specific energy density. These significant theoretical advantages of lithium-sulfur batteries over the lithium-ion technology have generated a lot of interest in the system, but the development of practical prototypes, which could be successfully incorporated into BEVs, remains slow. To accelerate the development of improved lithium-sulfur batteries, our work focuses on the mechanistic understanding of the processes occurring inside the battery. In particular, we study the mechanism of the charging process and obtain spatially resolved information about both solution and solid phase intermediates in two locations of an operating Li2S-Li battery: the cathode and the separator. These measurements were made possible through the combination of a spectro-electrochemical cell developed in our laboratory and synchrotron based operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements. Using the generated data, we identify a charging mechanism in a standard DOL-DME based electrolyte, which is consistent with both the first and subsequent charging processes.	Mar 2016

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I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy

Understanding the charging mechanism of lithium-sulfur batteries using spatially resolved operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Yelena Gorlin , Manu Patel Ubrani Mruthunjayappa , Anna Freiberg , Qi He , Michele Piana , Moniek Tromp , Hubert A. Gasteiger

Journal Of The Electrochemical Society 163, A930 - A939

DOI: 10.1149/2.0631606jes

Diamond Proposal Number(s): [8734]