On the reaction in the lead-acid battery (as the special review-article by the 2005' Gaston Plante Medal recipient)

摘要

It is my great pleasure to be awarded with the 2005' Gaston Plante Medal for significant contribution to the development of lead-acid battery science and technology. I would like to thank most heartily to Prof. D. Pavlov of Chairman, and all members of the Organic Committee of LAB AT'2005 for the best treatment to select me as a 2005' Gaston Plante Medallist. The first practical rechargeable lead-acid battery was demonstrated by G. Plante in 1860. The cell was-consisted of the rolled two large lead sheets separated by a sheet of felt dipped in sul-furic acid solution, and it was formed by the repeats of charge and discharge in long time. The battery was formed from nine of such cells. Though the nickel-cadmium battery by W. Jlingner in 1899, and recently the nickel-hydrogen battery in 1990, and then the lithium ion battery in 1991 were demonstrated and produced practically, the lead-acid battery has been produced and used as the main battery up to now over about 150 years. The lead-acid battery is the battery for the wide range of applications, e.g., for the starting automobiles, the electric utility load-leveling, and the electric vehicle propulsion, because they have high performance, as which the energy density of 40 Wh kg~(-1), 80 Wh l~(-1), the power density of 300 W kg~(-1), and the cycle life of more than 2000 times.