Patent ID: 11962009
Assignee: NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A sodium battery, comprising:
an anode current collector,
a sodium-based liquid metal anode,
a nonporous Na+-conducting separator,
an electrochemically active inorganic molten salt catholyte comprising at least one sodium halide salt, at least one gallium halide salt, and at least one aluminum halide salt, and
an inert cathode current collector,
and wherein the inorganic molten salt catholyte comprises from 35 to 55 mol % NaI, (65 to 45)−x mol % AlCl3, and x mol % GaCl3, wherein the x is 0.1 to 5.