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154857 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.40212 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2016 xxvi, 150 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Castro De la Torre, Helme Atic Friesen, Cody Buttry, Daniel Bautista Martinez, Jose A Arizona State University Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2016 Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-126) Field of study: Materials science and engineering This investigation is divided into two portions linked together by the momentous reaches of electrochemistry science, principles influencing everyday phenomena as well as innovative research in the field of energy transformation. The first portion explores the strategies for flue gas carbon dioxide capture and release using electrochemical means. The main focus is in the role thiolates play as reversible strong nucleophiles with the ability to capture CO2 and form thiocarbonates. Carbon dioxide in this form is transported and separated from thiocarbonate through electrochemical oxidation to complete the release portion of this catch-and-release approach. Two testing design systems play a fundamental role in achieving an efficient CO2 catch and release process and were purposely build and adapted for this work. A maximum faradaic efficiency of seventeen percent was attained in the first membrane tests whose analysis is presented in this work. An efficiency close to thirty percent was attained with the membrane cell in recent experiments but have not been included in this manuscript.<br/><br/>The second portion of this manuscript studies bulk stress evolution resulting from insertion/extraction of lithium in/from a lithium manganese oxide spinel cathode structure. A cantilever-based testing system uses a sophisticated, high resolution capacitive technique capable of measuring beam deflections of the cathode in the subnanometer scale. Tensile stresses of up to 1.2 MPa are reported during delithiation along with compressive stresses of 1.0 MPa during lithiation. An analysis of irreversible charge loss is attributed to surface passivation phenomena with its associated stresses of formation following patterns of tensile stress evolution. Materials Science Energy Engineering Batteries Bulk Stress CO2 Capture Electrochemistry Ionic Liquids Lithium ions Materials Science Carbon dioxide--Absorption and adsorption. Post-combustion electrochemical capture and release of CO₂ and deformation and bulk stress evolution in LiMn₂O₄ intercalation compounds