Nickel Iron Gel Battery - Part 2 

I make similar process with non flow vanadium redox battery without special membranes.

If I can suggest: Go ahead and use your black iron oxide powder at the anode, but first add about 5% S powder to it and heat it in your oven at about 200-250 Fahr. until the S fuses all the Fe3O4 particles. This will activate the iron. (don't bother making FeS material as you described above, which btw you don't have to burn - you just heat it in an old test tube really hot if you need to make it again). Then mix in a suitable amount of KOH to make a paste, and press it really really hard into a substrate like steel wool or perforated nickel sheet or Exmet. The trick is to really compress it hard, making it almost like a soapstone material, b/c iron oxide does not conduct electricity and you need that paste rammed and pressed into a solid as much as possible. A battery manufacturer would use a calendaring machine for this. Then, for your (+) plate, start with your Ni(OH)2 like you mentioned, add about 20% graphite or fine nickel powder (and 20% molasses if you want to 'copy' Edison's actual formula), and add enough KOH to make a paste, and press it really hard into a substrate like nickel foam or perforated nickel sheet. If it's not pressed really hard, it's not going to work b/c Ni oxides don't conduct either. If you wanted, you could plate some Ni on top of steel wool and use that as your substrate. Learn how to make your own Watt's solution and 'coin' things with Nickel, it will come in handy.

@@johansen5192 Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out. A friend has a 6 ton bearing press that should compress the materials well enough :)

Thanks. See the video description

No. Because here I start with nickel hydroxide,... which is the material of discharged battery. So, for that reason I need to charge the cell, that I get nickel oxyhydroxide material.

@@cayrex can I use copper plate and copper hydroxide, in terms of redox, there any other metal, like aluminium or copper.

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The glass would probably have to be under a super conductive state. Glass is an insulator as well as being chemically inert in its nature, it doesn't allow electrons to flow through it. Although that depends on the dielectric breakdown of the glass panel itself compared to the strength of the voltage applied. But batteries function with the transfer of charged ions ( an example would be a positively charged copper Adam) which proportionally reflects the movement of the elections in the circuit. Both positive and negative ions must be able to permeate through the electrolyte or salt bridge moving in opposite directions to there destined cathode or anode. The idea of solid state batteries has a goal and it's to prevent the formation of a crystal called a dendrite. This forms in the battery overtime in between the plates. And when it Bridges the two terminals it shorts out. This is why lithium batteries explode and cause Burns in spontaneous cell phones self destruction. Solid state tech could bring a means to prolong the life of the battery as long as the reactive components inside the battery are still working. This would be good news for rechargeable batteries since not only is the reaction inside the cells are reverse able. But the dendrites can be suppressed. Glass hower could be a good candidate for capacitors due to the need of a good non-conductive separator material.