The Calcium-Air Battery

可充电电池形式的能量存储对于包括运输和电网储备在内的一系列应用和设备变得越来越重要。碱土金属氧电池以土中丰富的钙等金属为负极，钙离子为电荷载体，是一种成本低、原料资源易于获取的高能量储能电池系统。除了在全球范围内储量丰富之外，它们还能提供比锂离子等现代电池更大的能量储存。为了在钙基电池及其后续发展领域取得进展，需要了解电池化学和所需材料以及电池结构的机理。为了在项目中评估基于钙的电池系统的可行性，我们将构建实验室规模的测试单元，将在氧气环境下进行测试。

Energy storage in the form of rechargeable batteries is becoming increasingly important for a range of applications and devices including transportation and grid reserves. Alkaline earth metal-oxygen batteries using the earth abundant metals, such as calcium as the anode and calcium cations as the charge carrier present a low cost and easily raw material resourced high energy storage battery system. They offer much greater energy storage a than present day batteries, such as lithium ion, in addition to their abundance worldwide. In order to achieve progress in the field of calcium based batteries and their subsequent development, mechanistic understanding of the cell chemistry and the required materials, and cell structure, needs to be understood. To evaluated the feasibility of a battery system based upon calcium within the project we will construct Lab-scale test cells that will be tested under an oxygen atmosphere.