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US 2023/0068006 A1Published application
Metal-air batteries
AssigneeDayLyte, Inc.
InventorCaleb Tyler Alexander
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Abstract
Methods of improving an aqueous metal-air battery are disclosed. The methods include forming a solid electrolyte on a conductive substrate; forming a protective surface on the solid electrolyte; having and improving separate oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution electrodes; improving the gas diffusion of the oxygen reduction and evolution electrodes; and improving the structure of the battery cell. Improved metal-air batteries including such improvements are further disclosed.
Claims20
A metal-air battery comprising:
- an anode formed from a metal or metal alloy, wherein the metal or metal alloy comprise one or more of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium, zinc, and aluminum;
- a solid electrolyte attached to the anode;
- and
- an aqueous electrolyte;
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- wherein the aqueous metal-air battery further comprises one or more of:
- a protective thin film coating a surface of the solid electrolyte;
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- an oxygen evolution electrode and an oxygen reduction electrode, each comprising a catalyst.
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