Continuous Shuttle Current Measurement Method for Lithium Sulfur Cells

C. Maurer, W. Commerell, A. Hintennach, A. Jossen

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Abstract

Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) batteries are a promising energy storage technology with very high theoretical limits in terms of specific capacity and specific energy. However, these batteries suffer from high self-discharge rates, associated with a low coulombic efficiency due to the polysulfide shuttle mechanism. A better understanding of the self-discharge characteristics and suppression of the self-discharge is of great interest for most applications. Hence, a continuous self-discharge current measurement method is applied to evaluate the self-discharge behavior of a Li-S battery, based on a corrected reference open-circuit voltage. The result is a continuous self-discharge current measurement method, that investigates the self-discharge in the upper plateau of a Li-S battery at 10 °C and 25 °C. This self-discharge current displays a plateau and extended balancing times directly before this plateau and is validated by a discrete self-discharge current measurement method at 10 °C and 25 °C. Furthermore, the activation energy is continuously calculated for the upper plateau and compared to a discrete reference measurement.

Original languageEnglish
Article number090534
JournalJournal of the Electrochemical Society
Volume167
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jan 2020

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