Good day.
We thank you for your comment and for the tremendous work of identifying alleged plagiarism in our white paper, which was done so diligently.
It is a pity that all your efforts are directed solely and exclusively at denigrating both the idea itself and the project as a whole.
I must point out to you that the solution of the problem, which has already been solved for our project, is being dealt with not only by us, and not by us the first. For example, here is just a list of the main research points with dates (for the last quarter of a century).
- Nakamura, Shiomi et al. at 1996-97 years have found that introduction of increased amounts of carbon black to the negative paste retards substantially the sulfation of the negative plates on HRPSoC cycling and the number of completed micro-cycles increases to about 5000.
- Hollenkamp et al. at 2000-01 have established, within a project of the Advanced LeadAcid Battery Consortium (ALABC) program, that addition of graphite or carbon black to the negative paste improves notably its conductivity and lowers the charge voltage of the cells.
- Newnham et al. at 2002 have found that the specific surface area of NAM is an important parameter as it sustains the potential of the negative plates below the hydrogen evolution potential. However, not all carbon forms that increase the specific surface of NAM contribute to improvement of battery cycle life on HRPSoC operation.
- Lam et al. at 2002 have pointed out that certain carbon forms (depending on the initial product from which they have been produced) may contain impurities which would lower the over-potential of hydrogen evolution and eventually reduce the efficiency of
charge.
- Calabek et al. at 2006 have proved that the presence of carbon in NAM reduces its pore radii and thus impedes the continuous growth of PbSO4 crystals, sustaining formation of small crystallites of high solubility and hence efficient charge process.
- Moseley at 2006 assumes that carbon acts as an electro-osmotic pump that facilitates acid diffusion in the inner NAM volume at high rate of charge and discharge.
- Lam et al. at 2006-07 have created an ultra-battery with a conventional PbO2 positive plate and a negative plate comprising two parts: half of it is a carbon electrode and the other half is a regular negative plate (with sponge lead active material). In the ultrabattery design, carbon is in electrical, but not in physical contact with the negative active material. It has been speculated that only those mechanisms of carbon action which could still operate when the carbon is isolated from the lead active mass can be considered as candidates for providing the major benefit to charge efficiency and
impeding negative plate sulfation.
- Pavlov et al. at 2010-12 established that carbon additives reduce the mean pore radius of NAM, carbon particles adsorb onto the lead surface, mostly to the edges and apexes of the lead crystals, and at higher carbon concentrations, onto the crystal surface as well. Some of the carbon types have a stable and low-ohmic contact with the lead surface. These carbon additives will guarantee good electrochemical behavior of the (Pb + C) electrode.
- Pavlov et al. at 2013-15 identify of the mechanism (s) by which certain forms of carbon, when included in the negative active material of a valve-regulated lead – acid battery exposed to high-rate partial-state-of charge operation, are able to resist sulfation.
As you can see, at different times a lot of efforts have been made to positively address the issue of the applicability of carbon nanomaterials in the production of lead-acid batteries.
Moreover, I will tell you - some of the technologies have even been introduced. True, since no one except our team was able to solve in a complex the problem of producing the materials themselves, transporting them and introducing them into existing production chains, the introduction of such technologies did not give any special marketing advantages.
The technologies that we use are also developed by us, and they are displayed in the relevant articles (which you did not get to) and already received patents for production technologies (which you also did not get to, which is rather strange, there are links in the white paper).
I understand that your task is precisely and directly denigrating our efforts, but we are not going to interfere with you even in this regard - a reasonable investor will always prefer to see everything with his own eyes and touch with his own hands (and we are ready to provide such an opportunity to anyone who wishes) or, at least, watch the video cut on our YouTube channel from our production, its quality, etc.