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Developing a New Experiment Kit

11/9/2014

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While the dye-sensitized solar cell workshops are off to a great start in Uganda, SciBridge volunteers at UT Austin have been working on developing a new experiment kit.  This time, our goal is to demonstrate energy conversion with aluminum-air (Al-air) batteries.  Metal-air batteries have received a lot of attention over the past few years due to their tremendously high theoretical energy densities.  Researchers are hard at work trying to make metal-air batteries rechargeable and more efficient.  Our goals for the Al-air battery kits are (1) to let the students make working batteries that can light up a LED and (2) ask critical questions about what makes metal-air batteries so hard to re-charge.  This discussion naturally leads to electrocatalysis, another highly active research area.

Today, UT Austin grad students Benjamin and Siyang and our 1st undergraduate student, Kevin, joined me for a fun morning of playing around with the experiment.  Check out the photos below!

-Veronica
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Siyang carefully applying carbon ink onto nickel mesh to make the air cathode.
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Siyang and Benjamin holding the electrical contacts to the battery.  After several configurations, we get the LED brightly lit!
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