Research activities in Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on the solid electrolytes for sodium sulfur batteries

The effects of temperature on the electrochemical performance of sodium–nickel chloride batteries

“…Table 2 lists area-specific resistance (ASR) of our composite BASE (R BASE ) and cell ohmic resistance compared with BASE used in conventional state-of-the-art tubular sodium batteries. The ASR of our composite BASE [19] was quite consistent with that of composite tubular BASE reported by SICCAS [20], even though it was higher than that of pure BASE [21]. It should be also noted that the contribution of BASE towards the ohmic resistance of NaeNiCl 2 cells tested in this study was more than 90%.…”

Synthesis and characterization of Y2O3 doped Na–β″-Al2O3 solid electrolyte by double zeta process

“…In order to realize the uniform mixing and eliminate dissimilarity in particle sizes and shapes between the minor and major phases, a double zeta process was established by Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) in 1980s [14][15][16]. The synthesized zeta-lithium aluminate (Li 2 O Á 5Al 2 O 3 ) and zeta-sodium aluminate (Na 2 O Á 5Al 2 O 3 ) were used as precursors in double zeta process.…”

Synthesis and characterization of titanium doped sodium beta″-alumina

“…Low resistivity ionic conductor sodium-beta -alumina has been extensively studied due to its applications in sodium-sulfur batteries [1][2][3][4] and sodium-nickel chloride batteries (ZEBRA batteries) [4,5]. Synthesis of sodium-beta -alumina can be roughly categorized into two types: solid-state reaction processes and novel soft-chemistry routes such as sol-gel processing [6][7][8], coprecipitation [9], alkoxide hydrolysis [10], and solution combustion techniques [11], etc.…”