Develop a Low Cost, Safe and Environmentally Benign High Energy and High Rate Reserve Battery

Abstract

The objective of this program is to develop a low cost, safe and environmentally benign high energy and high rate reserve battery such as used in fuses and air-bursting warheads which are equivalent in energy density to that of the presently used metallic lithium-oxychloride reserve battery. To achieve this overall objective, this phase of the program investigates a new reserve battery in which the negative electrode is a magnesium-based material, and the positive electrodes are high voltage, high capacity cathode materials. This initial effort aims to demonstrate the feasibility of this new reserve cell system under lower rate discharge conditions and to lay the ground work to resolve the challenging issues of anodic passivation that is inherent with magnesium anode.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2004
Accession Number
ADA439476

Entities

People

  • David Chua

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carbonate Esters
  • Chemical Properties
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Current Density
  • Electrochemical Cells
  • Electrochemical Reactions
  • Electrodes
  • Energy
  • High Energy
  • Ionic Liquids
  • Magnesium Compounds
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mixtures
  • Reserve Batteries
  • Thin Films

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  • Electrochemical Engineering/ Fuel Cell Technologies
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design