International Business Machines Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Globalfoundries Inc.

Volkswagen Ag

Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology

Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.s.

Aselsan

Ho-Cheol Kim

Robert Dennis Miller

Willi Volksen

Joy Cheng

James L Hedrick

Linda Karin Sundberg

Daniel Sanders

Teddie Peregrino Magbitang

Charles Thomas Rettner

Victor Yee-Way Lee

Mark Whitney Hart

Jennifer Nam Cha

Gregory Michael Wallraff

Geraud Jean-Michel Dubois

William Dinan Hinsberg

Sang-Min Park

Hiroshi Ito

Young-Hye Na

John Campbell Scott

Bryan D McCloskey

Leslie E Krupp

Muthumanickam Sankarapandian

Winfried W Wilcke

Naga Phani B Aetukuri

John David Bass

Shintaro Kitajima

Bruce Bennett Doris

Carl John Radens

Timothy Joseph Dalton

Ratnam Sooriyakumaran

Hoa D Truong

Jangwoo Kim

Hareem Tariq Maune

Esin Akca

Cagla Akgun

Gokhan Demirci

Dahyun Oh

Angela-Kristina Speidel

Qing Song

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Matthew Earl Colburn

Steven John Koester

Sarunya Bangsaruntip

Stefan Harrer

Eric F Connor

Younes Ansari

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Victor Y Lee

Dong Wook Kim

Philip M Rice

Jung Don Suk

James Lupton Hedrick

Yongku Kang

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Rouven Scheffler

Sogol Teschler

Robert Shelby

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A battery includes an anode; an electrolyte including an oxidizing gas; a metal halide that functions as an active cathode material; and a solvent including a nitrile compound; and a current collector contacting the cathode material.

Rechargeable metal halide battery

A method of preparing a porous sheet includes mixing a matrix material dispersion including a matrix material dispersed in a first dispersion medium with a microorganism dispersion including microorganisms in a second dispersion medium, to form a mixture. The first and the second dispersion media are removed from the mixture to form a matrix sheet, and the microorganisms are decomposed from the matrix sheet to form the porous sheet.

Porous sheets and method of making same from porous carbon nanotubes and decomposing microorganisms

An energy storage device includes an anode; a cathode; an electrolyte in contact with both the anode and the cathode; and an electrically non-conductive separator between the anode and the cathode. The separator includes a membrane having a plurality of voids, wherein at least some of the voids are partially filled with inorganic particles, and wherein the inorganic particles exhibit a shear modulus greater than the shear modulus of the membrane.

Separator for energy storage device

Porous sheets

A method includes dispensing ion-conducting particles on a substrate comprising an adhesive to which the ion-conducting particles adhere; overcoating the ion conducting particles with a polymer; removing the substrate and the adhesive from the ion conducting particles; and removing a polymer overburden on the ion conducting particles to form a device that includes: (i) the polymer or a derivative thereof, and (ii) ion-conducting particles. At least a portion of the ion-conducting particles extend through the polymer or its derivative.

Ion conducting hybrid membranes

A device includes a membrane that is: (i) impermeable to oxygen, and (ii) insoluble in at least one polar solvent; and ion conducting particles in the membrane. At least some of the particles extend from a first side of the membrane to an opposed second side of the membrane. The thickness of the membrane is 15 &#x3bc;m to 100 &#x3bc;m.

A lithium-oxygen battery may include an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte between, and in contact with, the anode and the cathode. The anode may include lithium and/or a lithium alloy. In some examples, the cathode defines a surface that is predominantly metal oxide with an electron conductivity of at least 10Siemens per centimeter. In some examples, the cathode defines a surface in contact with oxygen, and includes ruthenium oxide. In some examples, the cathode defines a surface that is substantially covered by ruthenium oxide and is in contact with oxygen.

Cathode material for lithium&#x2014;oxygen battery

A method of preparing a fiber including electro-spinning onto a substrate polymer solutions from a plurality of jets to form a network of filaments, wherein at least one jet sprays onto the substrate a first chemical mixture including a carbon fiber precursor compound, and at least one other jet sprays onto the substrate a second chemical mixture comprising a sacrificial polymer and a precursor compound of a functional material; and processing the filaments on the substrate, thereby forming an arrangement of carbon fibers having the functional material deposited thereon.

Methods for preparing carbon hybrid materials

A method of orienting microphase-separated domains is disclosed, comprising applying a composition comprising an orientation control component, and a block copolymer assembly component comprising a block copolymer having at least two microphase-separated domains in which the orientation control component is substantially immiscible with the block copolymer assembly component upon forming a film; and forming a compositionally vertically segregated film on the surface of the substrate from the composition. The orientation control component and block copolymer segregate during film forming to form the compositionally vertically-segregated film on the surface of a substrate, where the orientation control component is enriched adjacent to the surface of the compositionally segregated film adjacent to the surface of the substrate, and the block copolymer assembly is enriched at an air-surface interface.

Method of controlling orientation of domains in block copolymer films

A structure. The structure includes a substrate and a material adhered to said substrate. The material includes a structural layer and an interfacial layer. The structural layer includes at least one crosslinkable polymer and nanostructures having a predefined morphology. The nanostructures are surrounded by the at least one crosslinkable polymer in the structural layer. The interfacial layer essentially lacks nanostructures and includes essentially the at least one crosslinkable polymer.

Structure including a material having a predefined morphology

A method of forming a layered structure comprising a domain pattern of a self-assembled material utilizes a negative-tone patterned photoresist layer comprising non-crosslinked developed photoresist. The developed photoresist is not soluble in an organic casting solvent for a material capable of self-assembly. The developed photoresist is soluble in an aqueous alkaline developer and/or a second organic solvent. A solution comprising the material capable of self-assembly and the organic casting solvent is casted on the patterned photoresist layer. Upon removal of the organic casting solvent, the material self-assembles, thereby forming the layered structure.

Methods of directed self-assembly and layered structures formed therefrom

A method of forming a material. A self-assembling block copolymer that includes a first block species and a second block species respectively characterized by a volume fraction of Fand Fwith respect to the self-assembling block copolymer is provided. At least one crosslinkable polymer that is miscible with the second block species is provided. The self-assembling block copolymer and the at least one crosslinkable polymer are combined to form a mixture. The mixture having a volume fraction, F, of the crosslinkable polymer, a volume fraction, F, of the first block species, and a volume fraction, F, of the second block species is formed. A material having a predefined morphology where the sum of Fand Fwere preselected is formed.

Method of forming a material having a predefined morphology

A method of forming a metal oxide nanostructure comprises disposing a chelated oligomeric metal oxide precursor on a solvent-soluble template to form a first structure comprising a deformable chelated oligomeric metal oxide precursor layer; setting the deformable chelated oligomeric metal oxide precursor layer to form a second structure comprising a set metal oxide precursor layer; dissolving the solvent-soluble template with a solvent to form a third structure comprising the set metal oxide precursor layer; and thermally treating the third structure to form the metal oxide nanostructure.

Methods of forming metal oxide nanostructures, and nanostructures thereof

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