The City University of New York

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Michael Nyce

Sanjoy Banerjee

Gautam G Yadav

Xia Wei

Jinchao Huang

Joshua Gallaway

Alexander Couzis

Daniel Artemis Steingart

Tal Sholklapper

Nilesh Ingale

Damon Turney

Robert Plivelich

Yasumasa Ito

Martin Klein

Jungsang Cho

Snehal Kolhekar

Valerio Deangelis

Sanjov Banerjee

A rechargeable alkaline battery includes an anode comprising zinc, a cathode, and separator disposed between the anode and the cathode. The separator comprises a water-insoluble metal hydroxide. For example, the water-insoluble metal hydroxide can be magnesium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, strontium hydroxide, barium hydroxide, or any combination thereof. The separator comprising the water-insoluble metal hydroxide can serve to capture a portion of any zincate ions produced at the anode prior to the zincate ions passing through the separator to the cathode.

Rechargeable alkaline battery comprising metal hydroxide separator

A system and method for forming a metallic ion intercalated layered structure can include a housing, an electrolyte disposed in the housing, a counter-electrode disposed in the housing, and a working electrode disposed in the housing. The working electrode comprises a metallic support; and an electrode paste. The electrode paste can include an active material and a binder. The system can be used to form a layered structure having metallic ions from the metallic support intercalated into the layered structure based on cycling the working electrode.

Metallic ion intercalated layered structures

An alkaline battery comprises an anode, a cathode, a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte in fluid communication with the anode, the cathode, and the separator. The separator comprises at least one ion selective layer that can include at least one of graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, functionalized graphene, or combinations thereof. This can allow the ion selective layer to be configured to selectively block zincate ions.

Ion selective membrane for selective ion penetration in alkaline batteries

A battery includes a cathode compartment, a catholyte solution disposed within the cathode compartment, an anode compartment, an anolyte solution disposed within the anode compartment, a separator disposed between the cathode compartment and the anode compartment, and a flow system configured to provide fluid circulation in the cathode compartment and the anode compartment. The catholyte solution and the anolyte solution have different compositions.

High-voltage ion-mediated flow/flow-assist manganese dioxide-zinc battery

In an embodiment, a secondary Zn—MnObattery comprises a battery housing, a MnOcathode, a Zn anode, and an electrolyte solution. The MnOcathode, the Zn anode, and the electrolyte solution are disposed within the battery housing, and the MnOcathode comprises a MnOcathode mixture and a current collector. The MnOcathode mixture is in electrical contact with at least a portion of an outer surface of the current collector, and the MnOcathode has a porosity of from about 5 vol. % to about 90 vol. %, based on the total volume of the MnOcathode mixture of the MnOcathode.

Secondary zinc-manganese dioxide batteries for high power applications

A method of operating a battery comprises discharging a cathode comprising manganese dioxide to within a 2electron capacity of the manganese dioxide at a C-rate of equal to or slower than C/10, recharging the battery, and cycling the battery during use a plurality of times. The cathode is in a battery, and the battery comprises the cathode, an anode, a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode comprises the manganese dioxide and a conductive carbon. The anode comprises: a metal component and a conductive carbon. The metal component can be a metal, metal oxide, or metal hydroxide, and the metal of the metal component can be zinc, lithium, aluminum, magnesium, iron, cadmium and a combination thereof.

Cycling protocol for alkaline batteries

A zinc electrode comprises an anode material, the anode material comprising: an electroactive material comprising at least one of zinc or a compound comprising zinc, a stabilizer additive comprising at least one of: bismuth, copper, indium, a compound comprising bismuth, a compound comprising copper, a compound comprising indium, or any combination thereof, a conductive additive, and a binder.

Zinc electrodes with high capacity utilizations

A method of forming a layered manganese dioxide for use in a cathode of a battery comprises disposing a cathode into a housing of an electrochemical cell, disposing an anode into the housing, disposing a polymeric separator between the anode and the cathode such that the anode and the cathode are electrically separated, adding an alkaline electrolyte to the housing, cycling the electrochemical cell into the 2electron capacity of the manganese dioxide, and forming a layered manganese dioxide having a layered manganese dioxide structure with the one or more additives incorporated into the layered manganese dioxide structure. The cathode comprising a cathode material comprising: a manganese dioxide compound, one or more additives selected from the group consisting of bismuth, copper, tin, lead, silver, cobalt, nickel, magnesium, aluminum, potassium, lithium, calcium, gold, antimony, iron, zinc, and combinations thereof, and a conductive carbon.

Process for making manganese dioxide and its polymorphs reversible

A battery comprises a housing, an electrolyte disposed in the housing, an anode disposed in the housing, a stabilized cathode disposed in the housing and comprising a cathode material. The cathode material comprises a composition selected from birnessite or layered-polymorph of manganese dioxide (&#x3b4;-MnO), the composition being stabilized by bismuth and copper ions, a conductive carbon, and a binder. The anode can be at least 50% (m/m) lithium, magnesium, aluminum, or zinc.

Stabilized birnessite cathode for high power and high energy density applications

A secondary alkaline battery includes an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode includes a current collector, a cathode mixture in electrical contact with the current collector. The cathode mixture comprises: manganese oxide, a copper compound comprising copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or any combination thereof, a bismuth compound comprising bismuth, a salt of bismuth, or any combination thereof, and a conductive carbon. The secondary alkaline battery can also include a first composition in contact with the current collector and disposed between the current collector and the cathode mixture that includes copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof.

Electrode designs for high energy density, efficiency, and capacity in rechargeable alkaline batteries

A rechargeable battery can include a cathode, an anode current collector, an anode comprising zinc, and an electrolyte in ionic communication with both the cathode and the anode current collector. The electrolyte can include an organic ammonium halide. The organic ammonium halide can include an ammonium bromide in some instances.

Additive for increasing lifespan of rechargeable zinc-anode batteries

A secondary alkaline battery using manganese dioxide is described. The battery includes a mixed cathode material with birnessite-phase manganese dioxide or electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD), a bismuth compound and a copper compound selected from the group consisting of elemental copper and a copper salt. In some embodiments, a conductive carbon and/or a binder may also be included.

Mixed material cathode for secondary alkaline batteries

Methods of using specific operational charge and discharge parameters to extend the life of alkaline batteries are disclosed. The methods can be used with any commercial primary or secondary alkaline battery, as well as with newer alkaline battery designs, including batteries with flowing electrolyte. The methods include cycling batteries within a narrow operating voltage window, with minimum and maximum cut-off voltages that are set based on battery characteristics and environmental conditions. The narrow voltage window decreases available capacity but allows the batteries to be cycled for hundreds or thousands of times.

Alkaline battery operational methodology

A nickel-zinc battery includes a battery housing, a nickel oxide positive electrode supported in the battery housing, a metal substrate negative electrode supported in the battery housing, a spacer disposed between the positive and negative electrodes, an electrolyte contained within the battery housing and a means for circulating electrolyte in fluid communication with the housing for circulating the electrolyte between the positive and negative electrodes. The electrolyte contains zinc and the metal substrate is adapted for deposition of the zinc during charging of the battery. The spacer maintains the positive electrode in a spaced relationship apart from the negative electrode.

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Michael Nyce