Singlet oxygen from cation driven superoxide disproportionation and consequences for aprotic metal

Singlet oxygen from cation driven superoxide disproportionation and consequences for aprotic metal–O2 batteries

Published:2019 Issue:8 Volume:12 Page:2559-2568
ISSN:1754-5692
Container-title:Energy & Environmental Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Energy Environ. Sci.

Author:

Mourad Eléonore¹²³⁴,Petit Yann K.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Spezia Riccardo⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Samojlov Aleksej¹²³⁴,Summa Francesco F.¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³^ORCID,Prehal Christian¹²³⁴^ORCID,Leypold Christian¹²³⁴,Mahne Nika¹²³⁴,Slugovc Christian¹²³⁴^ORCID,Fontaine Olivier¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸,Brutti Sergio¹⁹²⁰²¹¹³^ORCID,Freunberger Stefan A.¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials

2. Graz University of Technology

3. Graz 8010

4. Austria

5. Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique

6. UMR 7616 CNRS

7. Sorbonne Université

8. 75252 Paris Cedex 05

9. France

10. Dipartimento di Scienze

11. Università della Basilicata

12. 85100 Potenza

13. Italy

14. Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier

15. UMR 5253

16. CC 1701

17. Université Montpellier

18. 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5

19. Dipartimento di Chimica

20. Università di Roma La Sapienza

21. 00185 Roma

Abstract

Disproportionation of superoxide to peroxide and O₂ generates the highly reactive singlet O₂, which needs to be avoided for highly reversible metal–O₂ batteries.

Funder

H2020 European Research Council

Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft

Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/EE/C9EE01453E

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