D C Trivedi
Articles written in Journal of Chemical Sciences
Volume 118 Issue 1 January 2006 pp 93-98
A low-cost lead-acid battery with high specific-energy
S K Martha B Hariprakash S A Gaffoor D C Trivedi A K Shukla
Lightweight grids for lead-acid battery grids have been prepared from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) copolymer followed by coating with lead. Subsequently, the grids have been electrochemically coated with a conductive and corrosion-resistant layer of polyaniline. These grids are about 75% lighter than those employed in conventional lead-acid batteries. Commercial-grade 6V/3.5Ah (C20-rate) lead-acid batteries have been assembled and characterized employing positive and negative plates constituting these grids. The specific energy of such a lead-acid battery is about 50 Wh/kg. The batteries can withstand fast charge-discharge duty cycles.
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