US20200350553A1 - Process for Producing Highly Activated Electrode Through Electro-Activation - Google Patents
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- the present disclosure describes a method of treatment of an electrode material with an applied electrical potential and electric current, to induce electrolysis treatment of the electrode.
- Ultra-capacitors store electrical energy by an electrostatic mechanism, not a chemical reaction as found in batteries. Therefore, the electric charge storage mechanism in ultra-capacitors is not rate-limited by a chemical reaction.
- the superior charge storage capability of ultra-capacitors is a function of pore volume and surface area.
- the energy storage mechanism of ultra-capacitors via transport of ions and attraction to the charge storage sites on the electrodes is limited in the existing technology because of the electrode morphology applied to the supporting members (foils, membranes, separators, etc.) that form “packaging overhead” in the overall ultra-capacitor device assembly for the given amount of electrode material.
- Limitations of that electrode layer in existing ultra-capacitor technology are founded in either the thickness of the electrode as it resides between the charge collector metal foil and the non-conductive separator membrane, as well and the total surface area within the channels, walls and pores of the electrode.
- Electrodes are generally fabricated from electrically conductive activated carbon.
- Other materials for the electrode apply highly scientific and costly engineered materials such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, “Bucky-Balls” and other such mesh-like and web-like molecular structures, to increase the available surface area within the pores, walls and channels of the electrode.
- ultra-capacitors store much more electric energy than standard capacitors, they generally store orders of magnitude less electric energy than lithium-based batteries. Since there is no chemical reaction in ultracapacitors as found in batteries, ultra-capacitors charge and discharge their energy orders of magnitude faster than batteries. According to conventional technologies, the electrical storage performance comparison between batteries and ultracapacitors becomes a trade-off.
- the present disclosure provides an advantageous electrolysis treatment pursuant to which, in an aqueous (water) electrolyte bath condition, water (H 2 O) is split at the outer and inner surfaces of the pores in the electrode to form hydrogen (H 2 ) gas and oxygen (O 2 ) gas that escape out of the carbonaceous electrode pores into the bath and expel loose materials (carbonaceous and other impurities) from inside the electrode pores outward.
- This outward escape of gas serves as a pore generation and pore expansion treatment, thus initially activating or further activating the electrode.
- the ambience of water electrolysis which produces the hydrogen, oxygen, and related solute molecular species (H 3 O + , H + , OH ⁇ , etc.) also kinetically react and electro-chemically react with materials of the carbonaceous electrodes, and remove undesirable compounds, thereby further activating the electrodes.
- the kinetically driven reactions and electrochemically driven reactions can be selectively controlled to remove undesirable materials from the electrode and not affect or minimally affect the base carbon structures and materials of the electrode by control of the voltage window applied in the disclosed treatment.
- these electrochemically driven and kinetically driven cleaning reactions can be controlled, enhanced and modified by addition of other solutes, salts, acids an bases in the electrolyte solution.
- the disclosed electrolysis treatment of the carbonaceous electrode grows advantageous nanostructures that are electrodeposited plating material on the surface of the electrode and in the channels and pores of the electrode which increase the surface area and therefore increases the energy storage capability when the electrodes are used in an electric double layer capacitor, ultracapacitor, pseudo-capacitor, battery or fuel cell as electrodes, or as any other adsorbing or adsorbing-desorbing function, or as electrodes in water-electrolysis based hydrogen gas and oxygen gas generators.
- FIGS. 1A thru 1 D schematically depict an exemplary electrochemical setup according to the present disclosure
- FIGS. 2A-2B are SEM images of untreated versus treated carbonaceous biochar electrode wafers
- FIG. 3 provides four (4) SEM images depicting progressive magnification of the same area of the interior of an electrode treated by the electrolysis-activation method disclosed herein;
- FIG. 4 provides two (2) SEM images of the same area of an untreated monolithic carbonaceous biochar electrode under different magnification revealing the absence of preferential structures otherwise created by the disclosed method
- FIG. 5 provides two (2) SEM images of the same area of the treated monolithic carbonaceous biochar electrode under different magnifications.
- the DC Power Source hereinafter Power Supply (in an exemplary implementation, the DC Power Supply is a TekPower Model TP3005T DC Power Supply)
- the stimulus can originate from within the Voltage Polarity Reversing Device ( 112 ) or be external to the Voltage Polarity Reversing Device ( 112 )
- a Voltage Polarity Reversing Device such that two distinct states of Direct Output Polarity and Reverse Output Polarity are possible when observing or measuring the device ( 112 ) output polarity terminals “A” and “B” relative to the device input polarity, and such device having a polarity switching activation caused by mechanical electrical stimulus ( 111 ), such as a timing device, such as manual manipulation.
- the output terminals of ( 112 ) are labeled A and B wherein, when the Voltage Polarity Reversing Device ( 112 ) is in the initial or resting state (unmanipulated by ( 111 ) or unstimulated by ( 111 )) the “A” terminal provides the Positive Voltage Potential and the “B” Terminal provides the Negative Voltage Potential sourced from the DC Powe Supply ( 105 ).
- the Voltage Polarity Reversing Device ( 112 ) when the Voltage Polarity Reversing Device ( 112 ) is in the active state (manipulated by ( 111 ) or stimulated by ( 111 )) and device ( 112 ) performs its Voltage Polarity Reversing function the “B” terminal provides the Positive Voltage Potential and the “A” Terminal provides the Negative Voltage Potential as sourced by the DC Power Supply ( 105 ).
- Electrolyte Bath Vessel made of non-electrically conductive material.
- each fastener clip being larger or longer than shown in FIG. 1A so as to hold more than one electrode of each polarity, with the extension that a multiplicity fastener clips of each polarity is used, and wherein the arrangement of each parallel fastener clip is such that the assigned polarity alternates from one fastener clip rail to the next along the arrangement.
- Electro-Activation Overall apparatus setup for implementation of the disclosed methods for a single pair of electrodes being treated by Electro-Activation, wherein the electrodes may be of significant size and weight such that the conductive fastener clips alone may not be sufficient to support and hold the electrodes submerged into the bath, thereby requiring an additional support ( 191 ).
- Supports ( 191 ) An added support device of non-electrically conductive material providing mechanical support to the electrodes that are otherwise hanging from the conductive fastener clips, the addition of such supports ( 191 ) thereby preventing breakage of the electrodes due to gravimetric stress. Supports ( 191 ) are further connected to other external support devices (not shown) to assist in suspending the electrodes ( 150 ), ( 151 ) in the electrolyte bath ( 140 ).
- FIGS. 2A and 2B show Scanning Electron Microscopy (herein after SEM) images of two similar electrodes, each being treated for activation by different methods disclosed herein.
- Image 200 Overall depiction of the SEM Image therein showing a magnified image of the surface and inner body of a Monolithic Carbonaceous Biochar Electrode material resulting from treatments disclosed herein.
- Image 200 shows the disclosed Carbonaceous Biochar Monolithic Wafers ( 210 ).
- Reference 250 shows an SEM image of the disclosed Carbonaceous Biochar Monolithic Wafer ( 260 ).
- the overall depiction of the SEM Image therein shows a magnified image of the surface and inner body of the Monolithic Carbonaceous Biochar Electrode material resulting from treatments disclosed in this embodiment.
- 260 SEM image of the results of a Monolithic Carbonaceous Biochar Electrode material having been activated by the disclosed Electrolysis-Activation step. A distinct “Fuzzines” of the surfaces of 260 are evident versus 210 which shows no “Fuzziness”, such observable “fuzziness” being the growth of preferential nano- and micro-structures of carbon, specifically graphene and graphitic structures plated onto the monolithic biochar pore surfaces due to treatments by the disclosed methods.
- an electrolyzed carbonaceous monolithic biochar wafer electrode is provided showing growth of preferential graphene and graphitic structures for superior surface area improvement for dramatic increase in capacitance. These graphene and graphitic structures are caused by the treatments to the biochar due to the disclosed method.
- the same treated electrodes exhibit over 150 Farads/gram and up to 300 Farads/gram when used in an ultra-capacitor.
- porous non-conducting separators can include a simple sponge or open-cell polymer foam rubber, porous plastic film, woven or non-woven cloth of polymer fiber, ceramic fiber, or silica-based fibers such as glass wool insulation and the like.
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