%0 journal article
%@ 1948-7185
%A Snihirova, D., Wang, L., Lamaka, S., Wang, C., Deng, M., Vaghefinazari, B., Höche, D., Zheludkevich, M.

%D 2020
%J The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
%N 20
%P 8790-8798 
%R doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02174
%T Synergistic Mixture of Electrolyte Additives: A Route to a High-Efficiency Mg–Air Battery
%U https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02174
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%X Magnesium primary cells are currently experiencing a renaissance following the suggestion of new strategies to boost their performance. The strategies suggested will maintain utilization efficiencies of 30–70%, which is considered to be relatively modest. In this work, the highest ever reported level of utilization efficiency of 82% is achieved for a Mg-based primary cell using a synergistic combination of electrolyte additives. It is demonstrated that the joint use of sodium nitrate and salicylate as electrolyte additives allows us to reach the aforementioned utilization efficiency of 5 mA/cm2 via offering an effective suppression of anode self-corrosion and uniform Mg dissolution under discharge conditions.