With a high energy density, Li-O 2 batteries have become a state-of-the-art battery technology. Inside the Li-O 2 battery, the generation and disintegration of the discharged product solid lithium ...

The high theoretical-energy density of lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries and their relatively light weight have made them the Holy Grail of rechargeable battery systems. But long-standing issues with ...

Traditional lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries cannot satisfy increasing demand for large-scale electricity consumption. Rechargeable aprotic lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries have become potential ...

Figure 1: Discharge–charge curves of GDL-based porous carbon electrodes with and without mediators. Figure 2: SEM images of the GDL-based porous carbon electrodes after cycling in a dual-mediator Li–O ...

TESTING A NEW LITHIUM BATTERY CONCEPT: A discharged carbon cathode viewed through scanning electron microscopy by a team of researchers from Boston College and the Technical University of Denmark. The ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have fabricated two-dimensional Mn3O4 nanosheets with dominant crystal planes on graphene (Mn3O4 NS/G) as efficient oxygen catalysts for lithium-oxygen ...

Lithium-air batteries, known for their potential to store far more energy than conventional lithium-ion batteries, have struggled with practical challenges like short lifespans and theoretical ...

Lithium-air batteries were originally proposed in the 1970s as a possible power source for battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles. Theoretical specific energy of nearly 11,700 Wh kg-1, ...