ROLE OF TERNARY PHASES IN CATHODE REACTIONS
ROLE OF TERNARY PHASES IN CATHODE REACTIONS
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DOI:
10.1149/1.2132817
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
WHITTINGHAM, MS
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作者:
WHITTINGHAM, MS
The cell reactions between lithium and several transition metal oxides and sulfides have been found to produce ternary phases and not the formation of lithium oxide or sulfide as previously proposed. These reactions, at 25~ take place with essential retention of the crystalline lattice, thus facilitating secondary cathodic behavior. It is found that cell reversibility is optimized when no chemical bonds are broken during discharge, that is, where ternary phases are formed by an intercalation reaction and where a broad range of nonstoichiometry exists as in the system Li/TiS2. Where some chemical bonds are broken as for V205 and TiS3 partial or difficult reversibility is found, but when all the bonds are broken as for example in CuS, the cell only exhibits primary characteristics.There has been much recent work in ambient temperature batteries using lithium anodes and cathodes comprising metallic compounds of the halides, oxides, and chalcogenides. Very little is known concerning the mechanism of cathodic reduction of such materials or even of the products of reaction. Thus frequently the observed emf's bear little, if any, relation to those calculated for simple reduction reactions. For V205 reduction to VO2, an emf of 2.4 V is expected (1) but the observed cell emf is 3.5 V (2, 3), for (CF), going to graphite and LiF the free energy change corresponds to 4.6 V and yet only 2.8 V is observed experimentally (4, 5), and for MoO3 giving MoO2 and Li2S the values are 2.2 (1) and 2.8 V (2, 6). In the case of cupric sulfide the cell emf is that expected for the formation of Li2S and Cu, 2.3 V (7), and in many cases there is no discrepancy for the halides. At low temperatures reactions in the solid state tend to go by the easiest route, that is, by the one involving minimal structural change. Thus in the reduction of tungsten trioxide by hydrogen at ambient temperatures hydrogen is incorporated into the lattice without any significant structural changes giving a hydrogen tungsten bronze, H~ WO3 (8). At temperatures,~ 350~ above the stability limit of the bronze, reduction occurs by abstraction of oxygen along discrete planes with the formation of shear planes at definite intervals (9, 1O). The remainder of the crystal-