摘要:
Stoichiometric titanium disulfide having a high degree of crystalline perfection and particularly suited for use as an active cathode material is prepared by heating particulate metallic titanium to a reaction temperature between about 475.degree. and 600.degree. C., contacting the heated titanium with an atmosphere having a sulfur partial pressure substantially equal to the equilibrium sulfur partial pressure at the reaction temperature to form titanium disulfide, and maintaining the reactants at the reaction temperature sufficiently to insure complete reaction. The reaction is advantageously conducted in an evacuated tube which is differentially heated to establish a hot zone where the reaction occurs and a cooler zone which controls the sulfur partial pressure within the tube so that the rate of reaction can in turn be controlled to minimize overheating, and also prevents the formation of titanium trisulfide.
摘要:
Novel compounds or compositions are provided capable of serving as solid electrolytes involving intercalated dichalcogenides having a combination of a tetravalent metal ion with a metal ion of lower oxidation state and a compensating amount of alkali metal ions to provide a substantially electrically neutral structure. The compositions have the formula:A.sub.x M.sub.x T.sub.1-x X.sub.2where A is an alkali metal ion, M is a metal ion of lower valence state than T, T is a metal capable of forming a stable substantially electrically non-conductive intercalatable chalcogenide and X is a chalogen. Also included are batteries employing the subject compositions as the solid electrolyte.
摘要:
A battery having a layered transition metal dichalcogenide cathode in which has been incorporated by intercalation a relatively small amount of a dopant material having a relatively large atomic or ionic size so as to spread apart adjacent molecular layers in the cathode material and permit more rapid intercalation of cations during the battery discharge, an anode, and an electrolyte which will permit the migration of cations from the anode to the cathode. The preferred dopants are sodium or potassium and the invention is chiefly applicable to a battery having a molybdenum disulphide cathode.
摘要:
Dichalcogenides of Group IVb, Vb, molybdenum and tungsten of two new forms have been discovered. The two new forms are the amorphous and layered-sheet configurations. In particular, the dichalcogenides of Group IVb, Ib, molybdenum and tungsten, i.e. Z(MX.sub.2).sub.n wherein M is the metal and X is the chalcogen, n is at least about 20,000 and Z is the number of such (MX.sub.2).sub.n sheets ranging from 1-10, can be described as possessing a "rag-like" structure representing a system consisting of single or several stacked but randomly folded and disordered layers or sheets having dimensions (as determined by TEM) corresponding to about 6.2 to 62 A in thickness, about 500 A minimum length by about 500 A minimum width. Broadly the rag-like (MX.sub.2).sub.n can be likened to a stack of polymer sheets wherein each sheet is one atom thick. These sheets of (MX.sub.2).sub.n are prepared by the controlled heating (in a flowing stream of H.sub.2 /H.sub.2 S) of amorphous MX.sub.2 obtained by the monaqueous low temperature precipitation of MX.sub.2 from mixtures of the metal salt and sources of sulfur, selenium or tellurium.
摘要:
Stoichiometric titanium disulfide having a high degree of crystalline perfection and particularly suited for use as an active cathode material is prepared by heating particulate metallic titanium to a reaction temperature between about 475.degree. and 600.degree. C., contacting the heated titanium with an atmosphere having a sulfur partial pressure substantially equal to the equilibrium sulfur partial pressure at the reaction temperature to form titanium disulfide, and maintaining the reactants at the reaction temperature sufficiently to insure complete reaction. A battery is described which employs a lithium anode, an electrolyte of lithium perchlorate dissolved in an organic solvent and stoichiometric titanium disulfide having a single hexagonal phase and a particle size surface area between about 2 and 4 square meters per gram.