Photo‐energy Conversion and Storage in an Aprotic Li‐O 2  Battery | Zendy

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Photo‐energy Conversion and Storage in an Aprotic Li‐O 2 Battery

Author(s) -

Zhu Zhuo,

Shi Xiaomeng,

Fan Guilan,

Li Fujun,

Chen Jun

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

angewandte chemie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1521-3757

pISSN - 0044-8249

DOI - 10.1002/ange.201911228

Subject(s) - photoelectric effect , bifunctional , nitride , chemistry , voltage , valence (chemistry) , electron , conduction band , photocatalysis , battery (electricity) , analytical chemistry (journal) , materials science , optoelectronics , electrical engineering , thermodynamics , physics , power (physics) , catalysis , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , biochemistry , chromatography , layer (electronics) , engineering

A photo‐involved Li‐O 2 battery with carbon nitride (C 3 N 4 ) is presented as a bifunctional photocatalyst to accelerate both oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. With illumination in a discharge process, photoelectrons generated in the conduction band (CB) of C 3 N 4 are donated to O 2 for O 2 − , which undergoes a second electron reduction to O 2 2− and gives the final product of Li 2 O 2 ; in a reverse process, holes left behind in the valence band (VB) of C 3 N 4 plus an applied lower voltage than the equilibrium drive the Li 2 O 2 oxidation. The discharge voltage is significantly increased to 3.22 V, surpassing the thermodynamic limit of 2.96 V, and the charge voltage is reduced to 3.38 V. This leads to a record‐high round‐trip efficiency of 95.3 % and energy density increase of 23.0 % compared to that in the dark.

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