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Development of a 100 W rechargeable bipolar zinc/oxygen battery

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A bipolar filter press-type electrically rechargeable Zn/O2 battery has been developed. Reticulated copper foam served as substrate for the zinc deposit on the anodic side, and La0.6Ca0.4CoO3-catalysed bifunctional oxygen electrodes were used on the cathodic side of the cells. The 100cm2 unit cell had an open circuit voltage of 1.4V (O2) in moderately alkaline electrolyte. The open circuit voltage and the peak power measured for a stack containing seven cells were sim 10V and sim 90W, respectively. The current-potential behaviour was determined as a function of the number of bipolar cells, and the maximum discharge capacity was determined at different discharge rates.

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  1. Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

    S. MU¨LLER & O. Haas

  2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    C. Schlatter & Ch. Comninellis

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MU¨LLER, S., Haas, O., Schlatter, C. et al. Development of a 100 W rechargeable bipolar zinc/oxygen battery. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 28, 305–310 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003267700824

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