Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced High temperature Materials and Precision Forming, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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10.7502/j.issn.1674-3962.2016.11.06
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Aluminumair battery, as a kind of metal fuel cell, has gone through several decades of development. Compared with other battery technics, aluminumair battery has special advantages on electrode cost, power density, environmental protection, easyrecharging ability (mechanical recharging by renewing anodes) and so on. It is a battery technic with a potential of large scale commercial exploitation and application. It can be foreseen that the development of aluminumair battery will bring great opportunities and changes to traditional battery technology and aluminum industry. In this paper, the development history of aluminumair battery was reviewed. The structure and reaction principles of aluminumair battery were introduced. The anode materials were focused on in this paper and its activation mechanisms were summarized. The current main problems of aluminum anode material were discussed. The research status were reviewed, including influences of purity, alloying, heat treatment and processing on the electrochemical properties of aluminum anodes. The research emphasis and direction in the future were pointed out.