Lithium-Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Battery Cathode Catalysts and Electrode Materials

This community develops electrochemical systems that store energy by reacting lithium with oxygen or carbon dioxide, focusing on the catalysts and electrode materials required to make these reactions reversible.

The research centers on designing cathode catalysts to facilitate oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, with a significant portion of work dedicated to lithium-oxygen and lithium-air battery architectures. Recurring materials include carbon nanotubes, graphene, and various metal oxides, while methods focus on optimizing bifunctional catalytic activity and managing discharge products like lithium peroxide. A distinct strand of work addresses lithium-carbon dioxide batteries, investigating how to stabilize the formation and decomposition of lithium carbonate. The community also examines the role of redox mediators and singlet oxygen in battery degradation, aiming to improve the efficiency and stability of these rechargeable systems.

The largest share of the community's output is found in oxygen research, accounting for 0.7% of all oxygen research, and 236 papers here. It also appears in lithium research, where it represents 0.4% of the element's literature with 133 papers.

The community comprises 983 papers, publishing most frequently in Electrochimica Acta, Energy Storage Materials, and Journal of Power Sources.

Recent work continues to explore advanced catalyst structures, such as atomically asymmetric ruthenium-cobalt sites and high-entropy alloys, to accelerate oxygen redox kinetics and suppress side reactions in lithium-oxygen and lithium-carbon dioxide batteries.

Papers behind this description

Charging processes in lithium-oxygen batteries unraveled through the lens of the distribution of relaxation times — Chem, 2023 — doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2023.04.022
Electron Localization in Rationally Designed Pt 1 Pd Single-Atom Alloy Catalyst Enables High-Performance Li–O 2 Batteries — Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024 — doi:10.1021/jacs.3c12734
Lithium–Oxygen Batteries and Related Systems: Potential, Status, and Future — Chemical Reviews, 2020 — doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00609
Recent progress in cathode catalyst for nonaqueous lithium oxygen batteries: a review — Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 2022 — doi:10.1007/s42114-022-00500-8
A high-entropy cathode catalyst with multiphase catalytic capability of Li 2 O 2 and Li 2 CO 3 enabling ultralong cycle life in Li–air batteries — Energy & Environmental Science, 2024 — doi:10.1039/d4ee02817a
Single‐Atom Immobilization Boosting Oxygen Redox Kinetics of High‐Entropy Perovskite Oxide Toward High‐Performance Lithium‐Oxygen Batteries — Advanced Energy Materials, 2024 — doi:10.1002/aenm.202304238
Recent advances in cathode catalyst architecture for lithium–oxygen batteries — eScience, 2023 — doi:10.1016/j.esci.2023.100123
Adjusting the electron configuration of MOFs-derived Ag/MnO1.1@C via electron transfer strategy to achieve a high-performance catalyst for potassium-oxygen batteries — Applied Surface Science, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2025.163863
Lattice-dependent activation of highly efficient SnTe cathode catalyst for Li–air batteries — Energy Storage Materials, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.ensm.2024.103392
Atomic Ni-catalyzed cathode and stabilized Li metal anode for high-performance Li–O2 batteries — eScience, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.esci.2024.100310
Designing Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Dual Centers in the ReS 2 Plane toward Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Li-CO 2 Batteries — Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 — doi:10.1021/jacs.1c12096
Boosting the ORR/OER Activity of Cobalt‐Based Nano‐Catalysts by Co 3d Orbital Regulation — Small, 2024 — doi:10.1002/smll.202400855
Atomically Asymmetrical Ruthenium–Oxygen–Cobalt Sites Accelerate Oxygen Redox and Suppress Side Reactions for Stable Lithium–Oxygen Batteries — ACS Nano, 2025 — doi:10.1021/acsnano.5c10218
Marcus kinetics control singlet and triplet oxygen evolving from superoxide — Nature, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09587-7
Constructing Double Heterojunctions on 1T/2H-MoS2@Co3S4 Electrocatalysts for Regulating Li2O2 Formation in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries — Nano-Micro Letters, 2025 — doi:10.1007/s40820-025-01895-x
Medium‐Entropy Alloy/In Situ N‐doped rGO Catalyst Composite for Ultrahigh Discharge Capacity and High‐Rate Cyclability in Li─CO 2Mars Batteries — Small, 2025 — doi:10.1002/smll.202506343
Unveiling oxygen reaction mechanisms on single-layer graphene surface in DMSO-based electrolyte for lithium-oxygen batteries by in situ EC-AFM observations — Electrochimica Acta, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2025.146901
High-Specific-Surface-Area Octahedral Iron–Nickel Spinel Oxides for High-Performance Li–O 2 Batteries — ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2025 — doi:10.1021/acsaem.5c01639