Battery
A battery, including a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte; the cathode including a cathode active material capable of reversibly intercalating-deintercalating ions; the anode including an anode current collector that does not participate in the electrochemical reaction; the electrolyte including a solvent capable of dissolving solute, the solute being ionized to at least an active ions that can be reduced to a metallic state during a charge cycle and be oxidized from the metallic state to the dissolved ion state during a discharge cycle and/or an intercalation-deintercalation ions that can deintercalate from the cathode active material during the charge cycle and intercalate into the cathode active material during the discharge cycle; the anode further comprising an anode active material formed on the anode current collector capable of being oxidized and dissolved to active ion state during the discharge cycle.
1. A battery, comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte,
the cathode comprising a cathode active material which is a lithium ion intercalation-deintercalation compound, a sodium ion intercalation-deintercalation compound or a magnesium ion intercalation-deintercalation compound;
the anode comprising an anode current collector that does not participate in the electrochemical reaction;
the electrolyte comprising a solvent capable of dissolving active ions that can be reduced to a metal during a charge cycle and be oxidized from the metal to the dissolved active ions during a discharge cycle and intercalation-deintercalation ions that can deintercalate from the cathode active material during the charge cycle and intercalate into the cathode active material during the discharge cycle;
the anode further comprising an anode active material formed on the anode current collector; the anode active material being zinc metal.
2. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material is formed on the anode current collector as a coating, electroplating or sputtering.
3. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode current collector comprises one metal selected from Ni, Cu, Ag, Pb, Sn, Fe, Al or a passivated metal thereof.
4. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode current collector comprises at least one selected from carbon based material, stainless steel, silicon or a metal with electroplating layer or coating layer selected from at least one of C, Sn, In, Ag, Pb, Co, or an alloy thereof, or an oxide thereof.
5. The battery according to claim 4 , wherein the thickness range of the electroplating layer or coating layer is 1-1000 nm.
6. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode further comprises a porous layer formed on the anode current collector, the porous layer has a micron or sub-micron or nano pores.
7. The battery according to claim 6 , wherein the porous layer comprises at least one carbon-based material selected from Ketjen black, active carbon, carbon nanotube, carbon fibre, or graphite.
8. The battery according to claim 6 , wherein the porous layer comprises a carbon-based material, the carbon-based material is a mixture of active carbon powder and binder, the weight rate range of the active carbon powder in the porous layer is 20-99%.
9. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode comprises a graphene layer formed on the anode current collector.
10. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode current collector is copper; the anode active material is zinc.
11. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode active material is formed on the anode current collector being suffered a surface pre-treatment, the surface pre-treatment is selected from at least one of mechanical treatment, chemical treatment, or electrochemical treatment.
12. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein pH range of the electrolyte is 3-7.
13. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the active ion is in the form of at least one of chloride, sulphate, nitrate, acetate, formate, phosphate in the electrolyte.
14. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein material of the cathode current collector is selected from graphite, stainless steel, Al alloy, passivated stainless steel, or passivated Al alloy.