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Understanding the charging mechanism of lithium-sulfur batteries using spatially resolved operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Authors:
Yelena
Gorlin
(TU Munich)
,
Manu Patel
Ubrani Mruthunjayappa
(Technische Universität München)
,
Anna
Freiberg
(TU Munich)
,
Qi
He
(TU Munich)
,
Michele
Piana
(TU Munich)
,
Moniek
Tromp
(University of Amsterdam)
,
Hubert A.
Gasteiger
(TU Munich)
Co-authored by industrial partner:
No
Type:
Journal Paper
Journal:
Journal Of The Electrochemical Society
, VOL 163
, PAGES A930 - A939
State:
Published (Approved)
Published:
March 2016
Diamond Proposal Number(s):
8734

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.
Journal Keywords: lithium-sulfur battery; operando characterization; spatial resolution; X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Diamond Keywords: Batteries; Lithium-Sulphur; Electric Vehicles
Subject Areas:
Energy,
Chemistry,
Materials
Instruments:
I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Other Facilities: 14-3 at SSRL
Added On:
14/03/2016 07:11
Documents:
Gorlin_2016_J._Electrochem._Soc._163_A930.pdf
Discipline Tags:
Energy Storage
Energy
Physical Chemistry
Energy Materials
Chemistry
Materials Science
Technical Tags:
Spectroscopy
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS)