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Batteries

The lectures about Batteries have the following learning goals:

  • Gaining knowledge of the major types of Li batteries and their characteristics
  • Reproduce the major challenges in batteries
  • Explain how a battery works and the functioning of each component
  • List and explain the different reaction types in batteries
  • Explain the different charge transfer processes in batteries
  • Explain the working of super capacitors
  • List and explain the different mechanisms that limit the cycle life of batteries.
  • Apply Nernst Law describing redox reactions
  • Apply the Tafel equation describing the charge transfer between electrode and electrolyte
  • Calculate energy densities and power densities from observed properties
  • Derive from a phase diagram the different phases that will occur upon lithiation.
  • Apply the Gibbs Phase rule to predict constant of variable output voltage
  • Derive the voltage curve from the shape of the Gibbs Free energy
  • Predict the basic redox reaction of two electrodes given the formation energy or the standard potentials
  • Compare different battery systems and differentiate.
  • Discuss scientific results observed battery performance and to relate this to material properties.

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