Energy Storage Materials Using Metal Boranes as Solid-State Electrolytes

The need for improved battery technologies is increasing worldwide. This project focuses on the synthesis of alkali metal substituted cluster borohydride salts and their possible usage in solid-state battery technologies. A library of dodecaborate salts with heavy metal substitutions were successful...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hales, Thomas Adam
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2024
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95025
Description
Summary:The need for improved battery technologies is increasing worldwide. This project focuses on the synthesis of alkali metal substituted cluster borohydride salts and their possible usage in solid-state battery technologies. A library of dodecaborate salts with heavy metal substitutions were successfully synthesised and characterised with many of these compounds found to have promising superionic conductivities and comparable stabilities at elevated temperatures.