A novel approach to the safety of reserve batteries is taken, based on a battery design that eliminates the use of a separate reservoir to store the electrolyte during inactive life of the battery. cells without the electrolyte and the electrolyte itself are situated in a battery container, stored… More

The goal of the proposed program is improvement of current state-of-the-art lithium/thionyl chloride battery technologythrough the use of carbon-based cathodes containing advancednon-noble catalysts. dramatic improvements in both safety and performance have been realized through the use of… More

The goals of the program are to decrease anode corrosion and discharge over-potential, and to increase the capacity of calcium soluble cathode primary cells, by using a novel sulfur dioxide based electrolyte. in the presence of calcium ions and the new electrolyte, sulfur dioxide was reduced on… More

The objective is to increase the capacity and safety of the lithium/lialc14 - 6so2/carbon rechargeable cell by altering the electrolyte and the positive electrode, and by improving the methods currently employed for making the electrolyte. aluminum is removed as discharge proceeds, since one of the… More

The objective is to construct, cycle, and evaluate prototypes of the title cell using a newly discovered electrolyte/solvent system with high conductivity and low freezing point which is capable of absorbing large quantities of bromine without dissolving lithium bromide or polybromides. the… More

The objective of the proposed research is to limit voltage delay, anode corrosion during intermittent usage and to increase the current capability and capacity of li/socl(2) cells through the use of new electrolyte salts. the principles used will be those which have succeeded in the past, namely, by… More

The objective is to increase the capacity and safety of the lithium/ lialcl4.6so2/carbon rechargeable cell by altering the electrolyte and the positive electrode, and by improving the methods currently employed for making the electrolyte. aluminum is removed as discharge proceeds, since one of the… More

Our objective is to improve the safety of lithium/sulfur dioxide (tetrachloroaluminate) rechargeable cells. recent work at our laboratory showed that sulfur dioxide solutions of tetrachloroaluminate salts contain hydrolysis products which are difficult to eliminate, even if the aluminum chloride… More