Batteries: Discharging the right product

Sampson Lau and Lynden A. Archer ()
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Sampson Lau: Sampson Lau and Lynden A. Archer are at the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 5201, USA.
Lynden A. Archer: Sampson Lau and Lynden A. Archer are at the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 5201, USA.

Nature Energy, 2016, vol. 1, issue 3, 1-2

Abstract: The chemistry of the discharge products of metal–oxygen batteries is related to the battery's efficiency but knowledge of their formation mechanism is incomplete. Now, the initial discharge product in sodium–oxygen batteries is shown to be sodium superoxide, which undergoes dissolution and then transforms to sodium peroxide dihydrate.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.19

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