A battery including an anode containing a lithium material, a cathode containing sulfur and a porous conducting medium, and an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte contains an organic fluorosurfactant additive and/or an inorganic additive.

A battery case (1) houses a battery with a plurality of non-prismatic electrochemical cells and at least one electronic component. The battery case includes a plurality of cell housings (12) and at least one electronic component housing (18) that accommoda...

An improved cathode suitable for lithium-sulfur batteries, a battery including the cathode, and a battery including a separator containing inorganic fillers are disclosed. The cathode includes sulfur and a metal oxide and optionally includes an additional ...

A eutectic formulation of KOH and NaOH is used as an electrolyte or an electrolyte-separator. An anode, and/or a cathode can contain the eutectic formulation of KOH and NaOH. A battery can contain an electrolyte-separator, an anode, and/or a cathode with t...

A cathode material suitable for use in non-aqueous electrochemical cells that includes copper manganese vanadium oxide and, optionally, fluorinated carbon. A non-aqueous electrochemical cell comprising such a cathode material, and a non-aqueous electrochem...

A system and method use an open-circuit voltage (OCV) method of calculating a state-of-health (SOH) of a chemical battery. The OCV system and method includes charging the battery to a maximum charge potential, determining an open-circuit voltage (OCV) of t...

A method of forming an encapsulated solid electrochemical component includes stacking a first separator (3), a solid electrochemical component (4), and a second separator (5) on an upper surface of a vacuum plate to form an electrochemical component assemb...

A cathode material includes a primary active cathode material and an amount of NiS 2 ; the primary active cathode material being selected from the group consisting of a primary metal disulfide, a metal oxide and mixtures thereof. Primary batteries (e.g., t...

An activation mechanism for a reserve battery cell generally includes a housing with a chamber containing an electrolytic solution and a delivery device configured to discharge the electrolytic solution from the housing. The delivery device includes a comp...