In situ AFM visualization of Li–O₂ battery discharge products during redox cycling in an atmospherically controlled sample cell

• Kumar Virwani,
• Younes Ansari,
• Khanh Nguyen,
• Francisco José Alía Moreno-Ortiz,
• Jangwoo Kim,
• Maxwell J. Giammona,
• Ho-Cheol Kim and
• Young-Hye La

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 930–940, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.94

• design, fabrication, and successful performance of a sealed AFM cell operating in a controlled atmosphere. Documentation of reversible physical processes on the cathode surface was performed on the example of a highly reactive lithium–oxygen battery system at different water concentrations in the solvent

From lithium to sodium: cell chemistry of room temperature sodium–air and sodium–sulfur batteries

• Philipp Adelhelm,
• Pascal Hartmann,
• Conrad L. Bender,
• Martin Busche,
• Christine Eufinger and
• Juergen Janek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1016–1055, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.105

• reconstruction and the corresponding formation of new interfaces. The most appealing multielectron transfer systems are the lithium–sulfur battery and the lithium–air (or more precisely, the lithium–oxygen battery) in which a non-metal is the redox-active element. Both batteries combine very high theoretical

• and differences to the analogue Li/O2 cell are discussed. Li/S8 and Na/S8 batteries are discussed the same way in chapter 3. The section will end with a brief summary and outlook. 2.1 Operating principles and general remarks The operating principle of a lithium–oxygen battery is depicted in Figure 2b

• lithium/oxygen battery” [29]. This cell could be re-charged at room temperature at least three times at potentials as low as 3.8 V. In 2002, Read characterized a Li/O2 cell comprising different carbon materials and different electrolyte formulations [30]. This was the first work to analyze and correlate