Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Corrosion mitigation of battery electrodes
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Application No.: US16393645Application Date: 2019-04-24
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Publication No.: US11374226B2Publication Date: 2022-06-28
- Inventor: Brandon James Hopkins , Douglas P. Hart , Yang Shao-Horn
- Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Strategic Patents, P.C.
- Main IPC: H01M4/62
- IPC: H01M4/62 ; H01M10/054 ; H01M50/46 ; H01M50/60 ; H01M50/571 ; H01M12/08 ; H01M50/449 ; H01M4/02

Abstract:
Corrosion mitigation in a battery may include displacing a first flowable medium with a second flowable medium along a first electrode to interrupt fluid communication of the first flowable medium with the first electrode—thus interrupting operation of the battery—while a second electrode remains in contact with a flowable medium (e.g., one or more of the first flowable medium or another flowable medium, such as a gel). For example, a membrane (e.g., an underwater oleophobic material) may be disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An oil may displace an aqueous electrolyte on a first side of the membrane toward a metallic electrode while the aqueous form of the electrolyte remains in contact with an air electrode on a second side of the separator membrane disposed toward the air electrode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190326603A1 CORROSION MITIGATION OF BATTERY ELECTRODES Public/Granted day:2019-10-24
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