Super iron battery

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The Super-iron battery is a new class of rechargeable electric battery. "Super-iron" is a moniker for a special kind of ferrate salt (iron(VI)): potassium ferrate or barium ferrate, as used in this new class of batteries.^[1] As of 2004 chemist Stuart Licht of the University of Massachusetts in Boston was leading research into a Super-iron battery.

"…the new cathode employs salts of an unusual ionic form of iron — hexavalent or superoxidized iron — that readily accept three electrons per ion, Licht explains. The more electrons the cathode can accept, the more electricity the battery can supply." —Peter Weiss^[2]

[edit] See also

• Nickel-cadmium battery
• Lithium-ion battery
• Nickel metal hydride battery

[edit] References

1. ^ Dataweek, 'Super-iron' battery shows great potential, 26 January 2000
2. ^ Science News, Iron Power: Eking more juice from batteries, Vol. 165, No. 12, p. 181, Week of 20 March 2004

[edit] Further reading

• Licht, S., and R. Tel-Vered. rechargeable Fe(III/VI) super-iron cathodes, Chemical Communications, vol. 6, p. 628-629, 10 March 2004
• Battery Bimonthly, Nano-class performance research iron folate-iron batteries - Study on the performance of nano-sized ferrates super-iron battery, Vol.34 No. P.247-249. 2004
• Energetic Iron(VI) Chemistry: The Super-Iron Battery, Science, Volume 285, p. 1039, 13 August 1999.
• "Super-Iron" Comes to the Rescue of Batteries, Science, Volume 285, p. 995, 13 August 1999.
• Florida Institute of Technology website - research - news - vol. 1 iss. 2b - The originator of "Super-iron"