Currently, fossil fuels supply over 85% of the world's evergrowing energy demand. 1 There
is an increasing concern about the global climate change resulting from the worldwide use …

Lithium-based batteries including lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and lithium-oxygen batteries are
currently some of the most competitive electrochemical energy storage technologies owing …

The search for new materials that could improve the energy density of Li-ion batteries is one
of today's most challenging issues. Many families of transition metal oxides as well as …

Although dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has emerged as a promising solvent for Li–air
batteries, enabling reversible oxygen reduction and evolution (2Li+ O2⇔ Li2O2), DMSO is …

Fundamental understanding of growth mechanisms of Li2O2 in Li–O2 cells is critical for
implementing batteries with high gravimetric energies. Li2O2 growth can occur first by 1e …

Advanced large-scale electrochemical energy storage requires cost-effective battery
systems with high energy densities. Aprotic sodium-oxygen (Na-O2) batteries offer …

Lithium-oxygen batteries with high theoretical energy densities have great potential. Recent
studies have focused on different cathode architecture design to address poor cycling …

An electrochemical cell based on the reversible oxygen reduction reaction: 2Li++ 2e−+ O2↔
Li2O2, provides among the most energy dense platforms for portable electrical energy …

Li–air batteries have attracted intensive recent research attention owing to their extremely
high energy density that is ten times that of the conventional Li-ion batteries; however …

The discharge mechanism of a Li–O2 battery involves lithium superoxide (LiO2) radicals. In
this Letter, we have performed high-level quantum chemical calculations (G4MP2) to …