Catalysis of oxygen reduction reactions in non-aqueous lithium-air batteries

• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20003366

As society continues to consume the world's finite carbon fuel reservoir, the demand for high-performance energy storage devices that are capable of storing alternative forms of energy such as wind, solar and hydropower increases. Chapter one explains the implications of this matter and summarizes the current state-of-the-art lithium battery technologies. The chapter concludes with an introduction to the lithium oxygen battery couple and provides a review of more recent developments of this technology that have been reported.