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)), this is, potassium ferrate (K2FeO4) or barium ferrate (BaFeO4), 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]
It uses the same zinc anode and electrolyte as an alkaline battery, but its capacity is around 50% higher.[3]
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[edit] Environment
Iron rust is nontoxic, preferable over mercury, cadmium, manganese and nickel oxides.
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[edit] References
- ^ Dataweek, 'Super-iron' battery shows great potential, 26 January 2000
- ^ Science News, Iron Power: Eking more juice from batteries, Vol. 165, No. 12, p. 181, Week of 20 March 2004
- ^ Science, 200-08-13
[edit] Further reading
- Super Battery.
- 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"
