Differentiating between ion transport and plating–stripping phenomena in magnesium battery electrolytes using operando Raman spectroscopy

Samajdar, Rudra N. and Marchesini, Sofia and Brown, Scott A. and Robertson, Stuart D. and Paton, Keith R. and Pollard, Andrew J. and Wain, Andrew J. (2023) Differentiating between ion transport and plating–stripping phenomena in magnesium battery electrolytes using operando Raman spectroscopy. ACS Energy Letters, 8 (4). pp. 1864-1869. ISSN 2380-8195 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00279)

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Abstract

Understanding metal plating–stripping and mass transport processes is necessary for the development of new electrolytes for post-lithium energy storage applications. Operando vibrational spectroscopy is a valuable analytical tool for this purpose, enabling structural and chemical changes at electrode–electrolyte interfaces to be probed dynamically, under battery cycling conditions. In this work we apply operando Raman spectroscopy to characterize the behavior of the Mg based "all phenyl complex" [Mg2Cl3]+[AlPh4]− in tetrahydrofuran (THF), an exemplar electrolyte for emerging Mg battery technologies. We demonstrate that the observed electrolyte Raman band intensities vary reversibly with electrochemical cycling due to anion migration in response to the applied electric field, while Mg plating and stripping can be monitored independently through the broad background scattering intensity. Spectral measurements across different sites of the platinum working electrode indicate that the ion transport response is spatially heterogeneous, while the plating and stripping response is ubiquitous.

ORCID iDs

Samajdar, Rudra N., Marchesini, Sofia, Brown, Scott A., Robertson, Stuart D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9330-8770, Paton, Keith R., Pollard, Andrew J. and Wain, Andrew J.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:86544
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    14 April 2023
    Published
    22 March 2023
    Published Online
    15 March 2023
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Chemistry
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:18 Aug 2023 14:57
    Last modified:14 Nov 2024 01:18
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86544
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