Abstract:
A metal-air battery includes first and second cells, each cell including a negative electrode metal layer, a negative electrode electrolytic film, a positive electrode layer configured to use oxygen as an active material, and a gas diffusion layer, wherein the negative electrode metal layer, the negative electrode electrolytic film, the positive electrode layer, and the gas diffusion layer are sequentially disposed, wherein each cell has an open surface through which at least a portion of the gas diffusion layer is in fluid communication with, outside air, wherein the first and second cells contact each other, and wherein a direction of a first open surface of the first cell is different from a direction of a second open surface of the second cell.
Abstract:
A composite electrolyte film includes a composite electrolyte layer including: a first domain including a plurality of two-dimensional nanostructures, and a second domain which is disposed in an interstitial space between neighboring two-dimensional nanostructures of the plurality of two-dimensional nanostructures, wherein the plurality of two-dimensional nanostructures includes a first electrolyte.
Abstract:
A electrochemical battery including: a battery module including one or more metal air cells which use oxygen gas as a positive electrode active material; an air supply configured to supply air to the battery module and to adjust an oxygen concentration in air supplied to the battery module; and a control unit configured to control an oxygen concentration adjusting operation of the air supply unit. Also a method of operating the electrochemical battery including: supplying air to a battery module using an air supply unit, the battery module including one or more metal air cells which use oxygen in air as a positive electrode active material; and controlling the air supply unit to adjust an oxygen concentration in the air supplied to the battery module.
Abstract:
A metal air battery system includes an oxygen supplying unit configured to discharge oxygen; a metal air battery module configured to receive the oxygen from the oxygen supplying unit and perform a discharge reaction; and an auxiliary power source configured to charge the metal air battery module during an operational stop of the metal air battery module so that at least some of a discharge product is discharged from the metal air battery module.
Abstract:
A metal-air battery includes a battery module configured to generate electricity by oxidation of a metal and reduction of oxygen; an air supply module configured to remove an impurity from air fed to the air supply module, exhaust a purified air which is purified by removing the impurity in the air, and a purge air including the removed impurity to an outside of the air supply module; a first cooling channel connected to the air supply module, wherein the first cooling channel is configured to supply purified air to the battery module an to cool the battery module; and a second cooling channel connected to the air supply module, wherein the second cooling channel is configured to supply the purge air to an external surface of the battery module and to cool the battery module.
Abstract:
A composite membrane includes: an organic layer having a plurality of through holes; and ion conductive inorganic particles disposed in the through holes, wherein a hydrophobic coating layer is disposed on a surface of the ion conductive inorganic particles.
Abstract:
A lithium air battery including a composite cathode including a porous material and a first solid electrolyte; a lithium metal anode; an oxygen blocking layer adjacent to the anode; and a cathode interlayer disposed between the cathode and the oxygen blocking layer, wherein the cathode interlayer includes a lithium ion conducting second solid electrolyte.
Abstract:
Provided is a metal-air battery including a cathode having a space which may be filled with a metal oxide formed during a discharge of the metal-air battery and thus having improved energy density and lifespan. The cathode for the metal-air battery includes a plurality of cathode materials, a plurality of electrolyte films disposed on surfaces of the plurality of cathode materials, and a plurality of spaces which are not occupied by the plurality of cathode materials and the plurality of electrolyte films. A volume of the plurality of spaces may be greater than or equal to a maximum space of a metal oxide formed during a discharge of the metal-air battery.
Abstract:
A metallic salt including at least one anion having a heterocyclic aromatic structure represented by one of Formulae 1 to 3; and a metallic cation:
wherein, in Formulae 1 to 3, each X is independently N, P, or As, one of A1 and A2 is an electron-donating group, and the other one is an electron-withdrawing group, ring Ar1 and ring Ar2 are as defined herein, L is a linker group as defined herein, m is an integer from 1 to 5, and n is an integer from 0 to 5.
Abstract:
A metal metal-air battery includes: an anode layer including a metal, a cathode layer spaced apart from the anode layer and including a hybrid conductive material having both electron conductivity and ionic conductivity; and a separator disposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer, wherein the hybrid conductive material includes a channel for metal ion transfer from the anode layer and a channel for electron transfer between the cathode and the anode.