Lithium-metal chromate organic electrolyte cell

Abstract

Abstract This invention relates to high energy density cells comprising positive electrodes composed of any of the chromates of silver, copper, iron, cobalt, nickel, mercury, thallium, lead and bismuth, and their mixtures; negative electrodes composed of any of the light metals such as Li, Na, K, Ca, Be, Mg, and Al, said electrodes being disposed in an electrolyte comprising an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of tetrahydrofuran, Nnitrosodimethylamine, dimethyl sulfite, propylene carbonate, gamma-butyrolactone, dimethyl carbonate, dimethoxy ethane, acetonitrile, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl formamide and the mixtures thereof: and having dissolved therein soluble salts of the light metals, for example, the perchlorates, hexafluorophosphates, tetrafluoroborates, tetrachloroaluminates, hexafluoroarsenates of lithium.

Inventors

• 👤 Arabinda N Dey

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