CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: MDA15-021

Description

"The current state of the art reserve battery technologies will not be able to meet requirements that call for higher power and longer runtimes in smaller spaces. The principal avenue for increasing the power and energy density is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to develop (design, fabricate, test and demonstrate) novel electrode materials for thermal batteries with high power with single cell potential (>2.5V) with current density more than 0.5 A/cm2 and pulse current more than 6.0 A/cm2. In Phase I, we will utilize a judicious combination of experimentation and knowledge of thermal battery systems to establish proof-of-concept for the newly proposed electrode material. CFDRC-developed thermal battery research laboratory, experimental hardware and protocols will be leveraged for the technology development. We will focus on the characterization and demonstration of the proposed thermal battery with novel electrodes through: (1) design and synthesis of electrode materials, (2) development of high voltage electrolytes, (3) fabrication of custom experimental testing cells, and (4) electrochemical testing and characterization of the proposed thermal battery."