Optimization of electrochemical cell
AssigneeNatron Energy, Inc.
InventorsColin Deane Wessells, Daniel Friebel, Peter Benjamin Herman, Grace Marjorie Yee
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Abstract
A system and method for optimizing electrochemical cells including electrodes employing coordination compounds by mediating water content within a desired water content profile that includes sufficient coordinated water and reduces non-coordinated water below a desired target and with electrochemical cells including a coordination compound electrochemically active in one or more electrodes, with an improvement in electrochemical cell manufacture that relaxes standards for water content of electrochemical cells having one or more electrodes including one or more such transition metal cyanide coordination compounds.
Claims8
A method for assembling an electrochemical cell, comprising:
- a step of assembling a cell stack having a liquid electrolyte including a quantity of water, a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode, said electrodes communicated with said liquid electrolyte during said step of assembling, with components of said cell stack having an as-synthesized set of properties, a pre-assembly set of properties before said electrodes are communicated with said liquid electrolyte, and a post-communication set of properties after said electrodes are communicated with said liquid electrolyte, wherein said sets of properties each include a water concentration of said liquid electrolyte and a quantity of component water in a component coupled to said liquid electrolyte of said cell stack;
- a step of coupling, during said step of assembling, said liquid electrolyte to said component;
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- a step of transferring, during said step of coupling, a post-assembly quantity of electrolytic water to said quantity of component water;
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- a step of reducing, responsive to said step of transferring, said water concentration of said liquid electrolyte.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.