A high specific capacity membraneless aluminum-air cell operated with an inorganic/organic hybrid electrolyte

TLDR: In this paper, a microfluidic aluminum-air cell working with KOH methanol-based anolyte was developed in order to overcome the self-discharge issue of aluminum.

About: This article is published in Journal of Power Sources.The article was published on 2016-12-30 and is currently open access. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electrolyte.

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Figure 2 (a) Cell performance curves and (b) individual electrode polarization curves of

Table 3 Positions of FTIR characteristic bands shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7 FTIR spectra of the powder samples obtained from KOH methanol-based solution without/with Al discharge.

Table 2 Fitting results of EIS curves in Figure 4.

Figure 3 Specific capacities of Al foil in the hybrid electrolyte Al-air cells with (a) anolyte: neat methanol-based KOH solutions with KOH concentrations of 1 M, 2 M, 3 M and 4 M;

Figure 5 SEM images of Al surface morphologies after discharging in (a) neat methanolbased and (b) water-based KOH anolyte. Insets are the corresponding sectional views of the Al electrodes.