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  bibo_abstract:
  - The electrolyte in the non-aqueous (aprotic) lithium air battery has a profound
    influence on the reactions that occur at the anode and cathode, and hence its
    overall operation on discharge/charge. It must possess a wide range of attributes,
    exceeding the requirements of electrolytes for Lithium ion batteries by far. The
    most important additional issues are stability at both anode and cathode in the
    presence of O2. The known problems with cycling the Li metal/non-aqueous electrolyte
    interface are further complicated by O2. New and much less understood are the
    reactions at the O2 cathode/electrolyte interface where the highly reversible
    formation/decomposition of Li2O2 on discharge/charge is critical for the operation
    of the non-aqueous lithium air battery. Many aprotic electrolytes exhibit decomposition
    at the cathode during discharge and charge due to the presence of reactive reduced
    O2 species affecting potential, capacity and kinetics on discharge and charge,
    cyclability and calendar life. Identifying suitable electrolytes is one of the
    key challenges for the non-aqueous lithium air battery at the present time. Following
    the realisation that cyclability of such cells in the initially used organic carbonate
    electrolytes is due to back-to-back irreversible reactions the stability of the
    non-aqueous electrolytes became a major focus of research on rechargeable lithium
    air batteries. This realisation led to the establishment of a suite of experimental
    and computational methods capable of screening the stability of electrolytes.
    These allow for greater mechanistic understanding of the reactivity and guide
    the way towards designing more stable systems. A range of electrolytes based on
    ethers, amides, sulfones, ionic liquids and dimethyl sulfoxide have been investigated.
    All are more stable than the organic carbonates, but not all are equally stable.
    Even though it was soon realised, by a number of groups, that ethers exhibit side
    reactions on discharge and charge, they still remain the choice in many studies.
    To date dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethylacetamide were identified as the most stable
    electrolytes. In conjunction with the investigation of electrolyte stability the
    importance of electrode stability became more prominent. The stability of the
    electrolyte cannot be considered in isolation. Its stability depends on the synergy
    between electrolyte and electrode. Carbon based electrodes promote electrolyte
    decomposition and decompose on their own. Although great progress has been made
    in only a few years, future work on aprotic electrolytes for Li-O2 batteries will
    need to explore other electrolytes in the quest for yet lower cost, higher safety,
    stability and low volatility.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Stefan Alexander
      foaf_name: Freunberger, Stefan Alexander
      foaf_surname: Freunberger
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=A8CA28E6-CE23-11E9-AD2D-EC27E6697425
    orcid: 0000-0003-2902-5319
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Yuhui
      foaf_name: Chen, Yuhui
      foaf_surname: Chen
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Fanny
      foaf_name: Bardé, Fanny
      foaf_surname: Bardé
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Kensuke
      foaf_name: Takechi, Kensuke
      foaf_surname: Takechi
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Fuminori
      foaf_name: Mizuno, Fuminori
      foaf_surname: Mizuno
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Peter G.
      foaf_name: Bruce, Peter G.
      foaf_surname: Bruce
  bibo_doi: 10.1007/978-1-4899-8062-5_2
  dct_date: 2014^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/9781489980618
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Springer Nature@
  dct_title: Nonaqueous Electrolytes@
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