Enhancing the Operating Life and Performance of Lead-Acid Batteries Via Grain-Boundary Engineering

摘要

Grain-boundary-engineering concepts and experimental results have been pre- sented which show that significant improvements in lead-acid battery per- formance are now attainable through the control of grain-boundary structure and grain size. The application of grain- boundary engineering to the lead-acid battery industry (particularly the SLI and stationary (particularly the SLI and statinary market sectors) promises to yield enhanced overall battery perfor- mance, reliability, and accordingly ex- panded potential markets (miniature batteries, electric vehicles, etc.) for what was previously considered a rather ma- ture technology.