3. Lithium thionyl chloride batteries

3.1 General

Lithium thionyl chloride batteries (Li/SOCl ₂ ) belong to the category of liquid cathode batteries, the latter being an oxyhalide of which numerous variants have been devised and studied [30][31][32] , the main ones being, in order: SOCl ₂ (thionyl chloride), SO ₂ Cl ₂ (sulfuryl chloride), POCl ₃ (phosphorus oxytrichloride), BrCl ₃ , BrF...