Switzerland ReVolt company recently introduced a rechargeable zinc-oxide batteries, build capacity lithium battery 3 times, and cost only half of its lithium batteries HD438 ,U4873 , HF674 . ReVolt The company plans next year, such small-scale batteries for hearing aids, and then extended to mobile phones and electric bicycles, the last may be applied to electric vehicles.
According to Yale University web site reports that this technology is based on Science and Technology Industrial Technology Research Institute Norway (SINTEF) design. Ordinary batteries containing reactant internal energy, while the zinc-oxygen cell using activated carbon adsorption of oxygen in the air as the cathode active material, zinc as the anode, to rely on ammonium chloride or caustic soda solution as the electrolyte. Compared with conventional batteries, zinc oxide battery is not easy explosion, build capacity is greater.
ReVolt company said rechargeable laptop battery to overcome the traditional zinc oxide zinc oxide battery a number of serious shortcomings, such as multiple charge the battery several times after power-on failures.
In addition, the company has also mastered the ReVolt in the electrolysis process to reduce the loss of electrode technology. Company CEO James? Mike Tao plus (JamesMcDougal) said that such a zinc-oxide cell battery can be recharged 100 times or more. He hoped for mobile phones and electric bicycles before the number of charge cycles can be achieved between 300 and 500 times.
