title: A new method to prevent degradation of lithium-oxygen batteries: reduction of superoxide by viologen.
abstract: Lithium-oxygen battery development is hampered by degradation reactions initiated by superoxide, which is formed in the pathway of oxygen reduction to peroxide. This work demonstrates that the superoxide lifetime is drastically decreased upon addition of ethyl viologen, which catalyses the reduction of superoxide to peroxide.
authors.affiliation: Chemistry, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. N.Garcia-araez@soton.ac.uk J.R.Owen@soton.ac.uk.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Frith
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Garcia-Araez
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Owen