General Electric Company

Battelle Memorial Institute

Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.v.

Amphenol Thermometrics, Inc.

John Patrick Lemmon

Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo

Ronald James Wroczynski

Ji-Cheng Zhao

Oltea Puica Siclovan

Patrick Joseph McCloskey

Jun Liu

Vinayak Tilak

James Claude Carnahan

Jun Cui

Grigorii Lev Soloveichik

Richard Louis Hart

Vincent L Sprenkle

Zhenguo Yang

Mohandas Nayak

Kalaga Murali Krishna

Jin Yong Kim

Xiaolin Li

Guosheng Li

Geetha Karavoor

Terry K Leib

Luke Nathaniel Brewer

Ravikumar Hanumantha

Ralph Joseph May

Xiaochuan Lu

Yuliang Cao

Tracey Marie Jordan

Melvin Robert Jackson

Jesse Berkley Tucker

James Anthony Ruud

Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani

Stanton Earl Weaver, Jr

Wayne Charles Hasz

Curtis Alan Johnson

Canan Uslu Hardwicke

Stephen Francis Rutkowski

Deborah Ann Haitko

Robert Edgar Colborn

Dan Hancu

Peter Micah Sandvik

Jan Henk Kamps

Chang Wei

Jie Xiao

David Mulford Shaddock

Kerry D Meinhardt

Johannes Martinus Dina Goossens

Roger Neal Johnson

Anthony Mark Thompson

Dennis Karlik

William Paul Minnear

Venkatesan Manivannan

Hendrik Verhoogt

Jonathan Lloyd Male

Daiwon Choi

Malgorzata Iwona Rubinsztajn

Hans Peter Brack

Gregory L Warner

Job Thomas Rijssenbeek

Mark Allen Woodmansee

Ronald Eugene Shaffer

Jennifer Kathleen Redline

William Patrick Flanagan

Vincent Scott Smentkowski

Qian Huang

Richard Joseph Kilmer

Willem Lodewijk Sederel

Patrick Joseph McClosky

Lelia Cosimbescu

Michael Pilliod

Susan Holt Townsend

Disclosed are embodiments of active materials for organometallic and organometallic-inorganic hybrid electrodes and particularly active materials for organometallic and organometallic-inorganic hybrid cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. In certain embodiments the organometallic material comprises a ferrocene polymer.

Organometallic-inorganic hybrid electrodes for lithium-ion batteries

A new battery configuration and process are detailed. The battery cell includes a solid electrolyte configured with an engineered metallization layer that distributes sodium across the surface of the electrolyte extending the active area of the cathode in contact with the anode during operation. The metallization layer enhances performance, efficiency, and capacity of sodium batteries at intermediate temperatures at or below about 200&#xb0; C.

Metallization pattern on solid electrolyte or porous support of sodium battery process

A method of making a molten sodium battery is disclosed. A first metallic interconnect frame having a first interconnect vent hole is provided. A second metallic interconnect frame having a second interconnect vent hole is also provided. An electrolyte plate having a cathode vent hole and an anode vent hole is interposed between the metallic interconnect frames. The metallic interconnect frames and the electrolyte plate are sealed thereby forming gaseous communication between an anode chamber through the anode vent hole and gaseous communication between a cathode chamber through the cathode vent hole.

Planar high density sodium battery

Sodium energy storage devices employing aspects of both ZEBRA batteries and traditional Na&#x2014;S batteries can perform better than either battery alone. The hybrid energy storage devices described herein can include a sodium anode, a molten sodium salt catholyte, and a positive electrode that has active species containing sulfur. Additional active species can include a transition metal source and NaCl. As a product of the energy discharge process, NaSforms in which x is less than three.

Hybrid energy storage devices having sodium

A method of preparing a graphene-sulfur nanocomposite for a cathode in a rechargeable lithium-sulfur battery comprising thermally expanding graphite oxide to yield graphene layers, mixing the graphene layers with a first solution comprising sulfur and carbon disulfide, evaporating the carbon disulfide to yield a solid nanocomposite, and grinding the solid nanocomposite to yield the graphene-sulfur nanocomposite. Rechargeable-lithium-sulfur batteries having a cathode that includes a graphene-sulfur nanocomposite can exhibit improved characteristics. The graphene-sulfur nanocomposite can be characterized by graphene sheets with particles of sulfur adsorbed to the graphene sheets. The sulfur particles have an average diameter of less than 50 nm.

Method of preparing graphene-sulfur nanocomposites for rechargeable lithium-sulfur battery electrodes

Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries having a cathode that includes a graphene-sulfur nanocomposite can exhibit improved characteristics. The graphene-sulfur nanocomposite can be characterized by graphene sheets with particles of sulfur adsorbed to the graphene sheets. The sulfur particles have an average diameter less than 50 nm.

Graphene-sulfur nanocomposites for rechargeable lithium-sulfur battery electrodes

A gas sensor is disclosed. The gas sensor includes a gas sensing layer, at least one electrode, an adhesion layer, and a response modification layer adjacent to said gas sensing layer and said layer of adhesion. A system having an exhaust system and a gas sensor is also disclosed. A method of fabricating the gas sensor is also disclosed.

Gas sensor and method of making

Modified surfaces on metal anodes for batteries can help resist formation of malfunction-inducing surface defects. The modification can include application of a protective nanocomposite coating that can inhibit formation of surface defects. such as dendrites, on the anode during charge/discharge cycles. For example, for anodes having a metal (M'), the protective coating can be characterized by products of chemical or electrochemical dissociation of a nanocomposite containing a polymer and an exfoliated compound (M&#x2032;M&#x2033;X). The metal, M&#x2032;, comprises Li, Na, or Zn. The exfoliated compound comprises M&#x2032; among lamella of M&#x2033;X, wherein M&#x2033; is Fe, Mo, Ta, W, or V, and X is S, O, or Se.

Nanocomposite protective coatings for battery anodes

A cathode composition and a rechargeable electrochemical cell comprising same are disclosed. The cathode composition is described as comprising particles of one or more transition metal, alkali halometallate having a melting point of less than about 300 degrees Celsius, and at least one phosphorus composition additive selected from P&#x2014;O compositions, P-halogen compositions, P&#x2014;O-halogen compositions, and their reaction products and combinations. Also described is a rechargeable electrochemical cell comprising the composition. The phosphorus composition additive in the cathode composition of a cell is effective to lower the capacity degradation rate of the cell during operation relative to absence of the additive, and effective to lower the internal resistance of the cell when under operating conditions relative to absence of the additive.

Cathode composition with phosphorus composition additive and electrochemical cell comprising same

A cathode composition is provided. The cathode composition includes at least one electroactive metal, wherein the electroactive metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium, vanadium, niobium, molybdenum, nickel, iron, cobalt, chromium, manganese, silver, antimony, cadmium, tin, lead and zinc; a first alkali metal halide; an electrolyte salt comprising a reaction product of a second alkali metal halide and a metal halide, wherein the electrolyte salt has a melting point of less than about 300 degrees Centigrade; and a metal chlorosulfide compound having a formula (I) MMSClwherein 'M' is a metal selected from group IA of the periodic table, 'M' is a metal selected from group IIIA of the periodic table, &#x201c;p&#x201d; is 0 or 1, and &#x201c;n&#x201d; is equal to or greater than 0.5. An article and an energy storage device comprising the cathode composition is provided. A method of forming the energy storage device is provided.

Composition and energy storage device

A primary aluminum hydride cell and a battery formed with a plurality of the cells is described herein. The cells are constructed of an anode, a cathode and an aqueous electrolyte, and the anode comprises aluminum hydride and a conductive material. In some embodiments, the cathode comprises an air diffusion cathode.

Primary aluminum hydride battery

The present invention provides high-throughput systems and methods for the fabrication and evaluation of electrode and electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells. The present invention includes systems and methods for synthesizing and optimizing the performance of electrodes and electrode-electrolyte combinations and utilizes small-scale techniques to perform such optimization based on chemical composition and variable processing. Advantageously, rapid device performance systems and methods coupled with structural and surface systems and methods allow for an increased discovery rate of new materials for solid oxide fuel cells.

Method for fabricating an array of electrode and electrolyte materials for use in solid oxide fuel cells

An apparatus, method, and material for storing and retrieving hydrogen are presented. The apparatus comprises a storage component, and this component comprises a hydrogen storage medium. The hydrogen storage medium comprises gallium. The method for storing and retrieving hydrogen comprises providing a source of hydrogen; providing a storage component, the component comprising a hydrogen storage medium, wherein the hydrogen storage medium comprises gallium; and exposing the medium to hydrogen from the source. The material comprises at least about 10 atom percent gallium, with the balance comprising at least one of aluminum and boron. The material is a metallic alloy.

Material for storage and production of hydrogen, and related methods and apparatus

A gas sensor is disclosed. The gas sensor includes a gas sensing layer including doped oxygen deficient tungsten oxide and a dopant selected from the group consisting of Re, Ni, Cr, V, W, and a combination thereof, at least one electrode positioned within a layer of titanium, and a response modification layer. The at least one electrode is in communication with the gas sensing layer and the gas sensing layer is capable of detecting at least one gas selected from the group consisting of NO, NO, SOO, HO, and NH. A method of fabricating the gas sensor is also disclosed.

A method for identification and evaluation of the hydrogen storage capacity of materials is presented, the method comprising providing a plurality of materials, wherein the plurality of materials comprise an array of synthesized hydrides and analyzing hydrogen content in the plurality of materials.

Methods for synthesis and evaluation of hydrogen storage compositions

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