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1 PublicationHow to circumvent the size limitation of liquid metal batteries due to the Tayler instability
Stefani, F.; Weier, T.; Gundrum, T.; Gerbeth, G.
Abstract
Recently, a new type of battery has been proposed that relies on the principle of self-assembling of a liquid metalloid positive electrode, a liquid electrolyte, and a liquid metal negative electrode. While this configuration has been claimed to allow arbitrary up-scaling, there is a size limitation of such a system due to a current-driven kink-type instability that is known as the Tayler instability. We characterize this instability in large-scale self-assembled liquid metal batteries and discuss various technical means how it can be avoided.
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Energy conversion and management 52(2011), 2982-2986
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2011.03.003
Cited 44 times in Scopus
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