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Demand pacemakers are very low current devices, requiring only 25-50 jiW for sensing and 60-100 pW for stimulation. In contrast, implanted ventricular defibrillators (Fig. 1.3) must be able to deliver short electric pulses of 25-40 J (e.g. 2 A at 2 V for 10 s) which can shock the heart into normal rhythm, and hence require a much higher rate battery. The most common system is a lithium-silver vanadium oxide cell with a liquid-organic based electrolyte. More than 80 000 such units have been implanted. Implanted drug delivery devices also use lithium primary batteries, as do neurostimulators and bone growth stimulators. 

Fig. 4.11 Cross-sectional view (from the top) of a prismatic high power lithium—silver vanadium oxide battery used to power an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). (By permission of Medtronic.)...

Silver, copper and other oxosalts have been extensively studied as cathodes in laboratory cells commercial power sources, principally for pacemakers, using silver chromate were manufactured until the 1980s, and silver vanadate or silver vanadium oxide (Ag2V4On), first reported by workers at Wilson Greatbatch Ltd, is currently used as cathode in implantable cardiac defibrillator batteries. 

Developing technologies in vanadium science provide the basis for the last two chapters of this book. Vanadium(V) in various forms of polymeric vanadium pen-toxide is showing great promise in nanomaterial research. This area of research is in its infancy, but already potential applications have been identified. Vanadium-based redox batteries have been developed and are finding their way into both large-and small-scale applications. Lithium/silver vanadium oxide batteries for implantable devices have important medical applications. 

Characterization, and Battery Applications of Silver Vanadium Oxide Materials... 

Takeuchi, E.S. and P. Piliero. 1987. Lithium/silver vanadium oxide batteries with various silver to vanadium ratios. J. Power Sources. 21 133-141. 

Bergman, G.M. and E.S. Takeuchi. 1989. Voltage delay and complex impedance characteristics of a high-rate lithium/silver-vanadium oxide multiplate battery. J. Power Sources. 26 365-367. 

Leising, R.A. and E.S. Takeuchi. 1993. Solid-state cathode materials for lithium batteries Effect of synthesis temperature on the physical and electrochemical properties of silver vanadium oxide. Chem. Mater. 5 738-742. 

Explains signal transduction processes and related biology, biochemistry, and cell biology in a way that is accessible to chemists Provides detailed descriptions of vanadium batteries Describes recent advances in the applications of the lithium/silver vanadium oxide battery, particularly for medical applications... 

The book includes discussion of the vanadium haloperoxidases and the biological and biochemical activities of vanadium(V), including potential pharmacological applications. The last chapters of the book step outside these boundaries by introducing some aspects of the future of vanadium in nanotechnology, the recyclable redox battery, and the silver/vanadium oxide battery. We enjoyed writing this book and can only hope that it will prove to provide at least a modicum of value to the reader. 

The development of implanted medical defibrillators required a high-rate, long-life battery system. In defibrillators, the CFx is used in combination with silver vanadium oxide (SVO) cathode materials [17]. A binary mixture of CFx and SVO are combined to form the cathode, giving the best features of SVO and CFx. Compared to CFx, the SVO has superior pulse current capability, but lower energy storage capability. The cell reactions are given in Equations 10.7 and 10.8. 

Leifer et al. [105]. used Li MAS NMR to study the strucmre of lithiated silver vanadium oxide, Liy4g2V40n, where x = 0.72,2.13, and 5.59. This compound is used in biomedical applications as a primary battery, particularly as the power source for implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs). Silver vanadium oxide is a vanadium bronze with semiconducting properties. It has been used successfully as a cathode material in the battery of ICDs due to its high rate capability and its high theoretical capacity (315 mAh/g) to 2 V. Electrochemical and structural studies of the average structure were performed by various authors who concluded that the systems undergoes a multistep reduction mechanism and forms silver metal in the early stage of the overall reaction [106-108]. 

Takeuchi K, Marschilok A, Davis S, Leising R, Takeuchi E (2(X)1) Silver vanadium oxides and related battery applications. Coord Chem Rev 219-221 283-310... 

Fig. 8.2 Characteristics of a typical lithium silver vanadium oxide battery. See text for details. (From Mehra R, Cybulski Z. Tachyarrhythmia termination lead systems and hardware design. In Singer I, ed. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator. Armonk, NY Futura Publishing, 1994 127, with permission.)...

According to cardiologists, the Li-AgVOj battery is best suited for implantable pacemaker devices. The anode of this battery is made from lithium metal and the cathode is made from silver vanadium oxide (Ag2V40jj). The cell chemical reaction is given by the following equation ... 

FIGURE 14.96 Discharge of a 2.2 Ah lithium/silver vanadium oxide defibrillator battery under a scheme of one pulse train of four pulses applied every 30 minutes. Ref. 46). 

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