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OSU team demonstrates concept of potassium-air battery as alternative to lithium-air systems

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charge cycle, K?O Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , they reported a charge/discharge potential gap smaller than 50 mV at a current density of 0.16 For comparison, they built a Li?O

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AIST Developing New Lithium-Air Battery; Lithium Fuel Cell

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Long-term discharge curve of the newly developed lithium-air cell. Researchers at Japan’s AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) are developing a lithium-air cell with a new structure (a set of three different electrolytes) to avoid degradation and performance problems of conventional lithium-air cells.

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Jülich, ORNL researchers advance high energy density iron-air batteries

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Using in-situ electrochemical atomic force microscopy ( in-situ EC-AFM) at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at ORNL, they were able to observe how deposits of iron hydroxide particles (Fe(OH) 2 ) form at the iron electrode under conditions similar to those prevalent during charging and discharging. Weinrich Click to enlarge.

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