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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 165, Issue 11, Pages A2483-A2492Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0381811jes
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- Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) [LGRS/2013/UKMUKM/TP-01, GUP-2016-044]
- MyBrain15
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Aluminum-air battery is a promising future energy storage device because it has a high energy density and is eco-friendly. The effects of zinc oxide filler on polyvinyl alcohol/alkaline solid polymer electrolyte for aluminum-air battery applications have been investigated. From the impedance measurement, the highest ionic conductivity achieved was 1.61 x 10(-2) S cm(-1) by PVA/4 wt% ZnO/2 M KOH at room temperature. From XRD analysis, crystallinity intensity decreased when KOH was added into the system. The FTIR also showed that the O-H and C-O bonds shifted to a high wavenumber, from 3282 to 3383 cm(-1) and 1092 to 1103 cm(-1), respectively, as the KOH concentration increased, which strengthened the bonding in the film. Thus, LSV analysis showed that the highest stability achieved by PVA/4 wt% ZnO/2 M KOH was +/- 2.15 V, which proved that this film is suitable in aluminum-air battery applications. Furthermore, in the aluminum-air coin cell, the longest discharge voltage time was achieved by PVA/4 wt% ZnO/2 M KOH in which the cell voltage was maintained at 1.49 to 1.53 V for almost 20 hours at 0.8 mA/cm(2). (C) 2018 The Electrochemical Society.
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