The performance of a bipolar type metal air battery is improved while a low environmental load is maintained. The bipolar type metal air battery includes a plurality of cells including air electrodes composed of a co-continuous component having a 3D network structure in which a plurality of nanostructures are integrated by non-covalent bonds, negative electrodes, and an electrolyte disposed between the air electrode and the negative electrode, and a current collector disposed between the plurality of cells, and the plurality of cells are electrically connected in series, and the current collector is in close contact with the negative electrode using a biodegradable material.

A battery cell that has a supply edge to which an electrolyte solution is supplied and a discharge edge from which the electrolyte solution is discharged has an introduction port that connects with the supply edge and a discharge port that connects with the discharge edge, and includes a plurality of meandering flow paths each of which is serially formed from the introduction port to the discharge port, the plurality of meandering flow paths being arranged in parallel in a widthwise direction. Each of the meandering flow paths has an introduction-side section extending from the introduction port toward a discharge edge side, a turn-back section that is turned back from an end portion on the discharge edge side of the introduction-side section toward a supply edge side, and a discharge-side section reaching the discharge port from an end portion on the supply edge side of the turn-back section.

A redox flow battery cell includes: an electrode to which an electrolyte solution is supplied; and a bipolar plate with which the electrode is arranged, wherein the bipolar plate has at least one groove portion through which the electrolyte solution flows, on a face on the electrode side, the electrode is made of a carbon fiber aggregate containing carbon fibers, and has a buried portion that is pressed toward the bipolar plate side and buried into the groove portion, and an amount of burial of the buried portion is not less than 0.2 mm and not more than 1.4 mm.

A bipolar plate assembly for a fuel cell includes a cathode sheet assembly and an anode sheet assembly. The cathode sheet assembly includes a first cathode sheet, a second cathode sheet, and a first divider sheet arranged between the first cathode sheet and the second cathode sheet. The anode sheet assembly includes an anode sheet and a second divider sheet arranged on an anode sheet inner surface. The second cathode sheet is arranged on the second divider sheet such that the anode sheet assembly and the cathode sheet assembly form the bipolar plate. The cathode sheet assembly includes passages through which coolant fluid may flow. The first and second divider sheets prevent the fluid from permeating through the cathode and anode sheets and interacting with the adjacent cathode and anode gas diffusion layers.

Microcracked and crack-free catalyst layers such as for electrodes in electrochemical cells (e.g., fuel cells) and method of making the same are disclosed. The microcracks may improve durability by better tolerating stresses without inducing or propagating into macrocracks. The microcracks also improve efficiency by providing reactant (e.g., oxygen) passages to catalyst in the catalyst layer. The microcracks may be formed in a predetermined pattern to further localize additional reactant passages is conventionally starved or more starved locations.

A component for an electrochemical cell, wherein the component is present in the form of an electrode for a redox-flow cell or in the form of a bipolar plate for a fuel cell or an electrolyzer or in the form of a fluid diffusion layer for an electrolyzer, including a substrate which is formed from a material in the form of a metal sheet and/or an expanded metal grille, wherein the material is formed from a tin-nickel alloy or a tin-silver alloy or a tin-zinc alloy or a tin-bismuth alloy or a tin-antimony alloy. A redox-flow cell, a fuel cell and an electrolyzer are also provided.

Bipolar electrodes comprising a carbon felt loaded with a polymer material and a nanocarbon material are described herein. The bipolar electrodes are useful in electrochemical cells. In particular, the loaded carbon felt can be used in bipolar electrodes of zinc-halide electrolyte batteries. Processes for manufacturing the loaded carbon felt are also described, involving contacting (e.g., dipping) a carbon felt in a mixture of solvent, polymer material and nanocarbon material.

To provide a space-saving bipolar plate for a fuel cell comprising an anode plate and a cathode plate, anode gas channels and cathode gas channels lead from main gas ports on opposite sides into an active area and are distributed across the width of said area such that they are subsequently diverted towards an opposite distribution area, and the coolant channels branch in the distribution area and, after branching, are diverted towards the anode gas channels and towards the cathode gas channels and, in each region of overlap with the anode gas channels and the cathode gas channels, are diverted collectively such that the coolant channels lead, together with the anode gas channels and the cathode gas channels, into the active area with no overlap and alternatingly with said anode gas channels and cathode gas channels.

An electrode for redox flow batteries, the electrode being formed of a carbon fiber aggregate including a plurality of carbon fibers. Each of the carbon fibers has a plurality of pleats formed in the surface thereof. The ratio of L.sub.1 to L.sub.2, that is, L.sub.1/L.sub.2, is more than 1, where L.sub.1 is the peripheral length of a cross section of the carbon fibers and L.sub.2 is the peripheral length of a virtual rectangle circumscribing the cross section of the carbon fibers.

Described and illustrated is an electrochemical cell, in particular a redox flow battery, with at least one cell frame and at least one electrode. The cell frame circumferentially encloses a cell interior. The cell frame has at least one feed channel for feeding electrolyte into the cell interior and at least one discharge channel for discharging electrolyte from the cell interior. The at least one cell frame has at least one finger element projecting into the cell interior and wherein the electrode is arranged at least in regions in the cell interior and on opposite sides of the at least one finger element. In order to achieve a more appropriate flow through, which reliably allows for a lower pressure loss and a higher power density, it is provided that the at least one feed channel and/or the at least one discharge channel is provided at least in sections in the finger element and that the at least one finger element has at least one outlet opening into the cell interior for the electrolyte to be fed and/or at least one inlet opening from the cell interior for the electrolyte to be discharged.