Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Electrochemically primed functional redox mediator generator from the decomposition of solid state electrolyte

  • Matthew Li,
  • Zhengyu Bai,
  • Yejing Li,
  • Lu Ma,
  • Alvin Dai,
  • Xuefeng Wang,
  • Dan Luo,
  • Tianpin Wu,
  • Ping Liu,
  • Lin Yang,
  • Khalil Amine,
  • Zhongwei Chen,
  • Jun Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09638-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The decomposition of solid state electrolyte material has been well-known in the literature. Here the authors report that the same decomposition process can be leveraged to act as a source of redox mediator that is only activated at certain voltages for application in Li2S based cathodes.