Challenges and Prospect of Non-aqueous Non-alkali (NANA) Metal-Air Batteries.

Non-aqueous non-alkali (NANA) metal-air battery technologies promise to provide electrochemical energy storage with the highest specific energy density. Metal-air battery technology is particularly advantageous being implemented in long-range electric vehicles. Up to now, almost all the efforts in the field are focused on Li-air cells, but other NANA metal-air battery technologies emerge.

Phenomenological Transition of an Aluminum Surface in an Ionic Liquid and Its Beneficial Implementation in Batteries.

Aluminum (Al) electrochemical dissolution in organic nonaqueous media and room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) is partially hampered by the presence of a native oxide. In this work, Al activation in EMIm(HF)2.3F RTIL is reported.

Influence of solution volume on the dissolution rate of silicon dioxide in hydrofluoric acid.

Experimental data and modeling of the dissolution of various Si/SiO2 thermal coatings in different volumes of hydrofluoric acid (HF) are reported. The rates of SiO2 -film dissolution, measured by means of various electrochemical techniques, and alteration in HF activity depend on the thickness of the film coating. Despite the small volumes (0.

Reference electrode assembly and its use in the study of fluorohydrogenate ionic liquid silicon electrochemistry.

Silicon electrochemistry in fluorohydrogenate ionic liquids is partly hampered owing to the incapability of producing an accurate and reproducible potential measurement due to a lack of appropriate reference electrodes. This research work describes a simple assembly of a stable external reference electrode enabling accurate studies of silicon electrochemistry in fluorohydrogenate ionic liquids. The electrode configuration is based on the ferrocene/ferrocenium (Fc|Fc(+)) couple dissolved in the EMIm(HF)(2.