Mary A. Hendrickson

TL;DR: In this paper, a fundamental study of the influence of solvents on the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in nonaqueous electrolytes has been carried out for elucidating the mechanism of the oxygen electrode processes in the rechargeable Li−air battery.

TL;DR: In this article, a model to account for the role of the ceramic fillers in enhancing the transport properties of PEO-based composite polymer electrolytes is proposed, supported by a series of specifically addressed electrochemical tests which included the determination of the conductivity and of the lithium transference number of various composite electrolyte samples differing from the type of the surface states of a ceramic filler.

TL;DR: In this paper, the intimate role of electrolyte, in particular the role of ion conducting salts, in determining the reversibility and kinetics of oxygen reduction in nonaqueous electrolytes designed for such applications is reported.

TL;DR: In this article, a rechargeable Li-air cell utilizing an electrolyte composed of a solution of LiPF 6 in tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether, CH 3 O(CH 2 CH 2 O) 4 CH 3 (TEGDME), and an uncatalyzed porous carbon electrode, investigated to elucidate the baseline Li−air battery chemistry, is reported.

TL;DR: In this article, Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was evaluated as a practical solvent for the rechargeable lithium air battery and its reduction products in the presence of LiPF6 supporting electrolyte via cyclic, rotating disk (RDE) and ring-disk (RRDE) electrode voltammetry.