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Liu, Jun

Amine, Khalil

Khalil Amine

Zhengcheng Zhang

Zonghai Chen

Jun Lu

Ilias Belharouak

Ali Abouimrane

Donald R Vissers

Yuko Fujita

Hideo Yasuda

Lu Zhang

Wei Weng

Michael M Thackeray

Robert C West

Larry A Curtiss

Christopher S Johnson

Chi Cheung Su

Qingzheng Wang

Meinan He

Sun-Ho Kang

Jaekook Kim

Bookeun Oh

Jun Liu

Sang-Ho Park

Tongchao Liu

Yang-Kook Sun

Hiroshi Nakahara

Huiming Wu

Daniel R Vissers

Sang Young Yoon

Nicholas A A Rossi

Xiangyi Luo

Xuanxuan Bi

Xiaoqiao Zeng

Kah Chun Lau

Jian Dong

Gui-Liang Xu

Hisashi Tsukamoto

Jeffrey S Moore

Haixia Deng

Shengwen Yuan

Rachid Amine

Susan A Odom

Wenquan Lu

Rui Xu

Yoo-Eup Hyung

Yuanyuan Guo

Samuel Plunkett

Ritesh Jagatramka

Peng Du

Guiliang Xu

Ujjal Das

Jeffrey W Elam

Scott R White

Nancy R Sottos

Paul Vannest Braun

Xiaoping Wang

Brian Keith Peterson

Christopher Mark Wolverton

Jason R Croy

Paul A Nelson

Osman Eryilmaz

Arthur J Kahaian

Deborah J Myers

Jai Prakash

Joong Sun Park

Junbing Yang

Stefan Vajda

Vilas G Pol

Mary M Caruso

Xiulei Ji

Krishnakumar Jambunathan

Hsien-Hau Wang

Benjamin J Blaiszik

Yun Jung Lee

Aaron D Finke

Aaron C Jackson

Ozgul Keles

Chun-hua Chen

Marta B Baginska

Billur Deniz Karahan

Zhenpeng Yao

Bryan T Yonemoto

Yu Lei

Joshua A Ritchey

Damien Dambournet

Gary M Koenig, Jr

Nicholas Agostino Antonio Rossi

Gennady Dantsin

Yoo Eup Hyung

Tianyuan Ma

Chang Woo Lee

Chun Zhan

Jung-Je Woo

Jianzhao Liu

Jiayan Shi

Hsien-Han Wang

Jianguo Ren

Matthew Li

Jianguo Wen

Eric C Tyo

A lithium or sodium battery includes a cathode containing manganese; an anode containing an active anode material; a separator; an electrolyte; and a transition metal ion sequestration agent; wherein the transition metal ion sequestration agent contains a micron or nano-sized inorganic compound and the transition metal ion sequestration agent is located at the anode, in the electrolyte, or any combination thereof.

Materials to improve the performance of lithium and sodium batteries

An electrochemical cell includes an anode that includes silicon, a conductive carbon, a lithium titanate, lithium metal, or a combination of any two or more thereof; a separator; a cathode having a cathode active material and a redox active species either mixed into the cathode or coated onto the cathode; and an electrolyte that includes a salt; and an aprotic solvent comprising a fluorinated ether solvent, a carbonate solvent, or a mixture thereof, with the proviso that the redox active species has substantially no solubility in the electrolyte. The redox active species may be a redox active organic compound or polymer.

Electroactive materials for secondary batteries

A cathode active material includes a composition expressed as:Li(NiMnCo)(NiMnCo)O; orNa(NiMnCo)(NiMnCo)O;where: M1 represents a core composition comprising of Ni, Mn, and/or Co or a combination of at two of thereof; M2 represents a surface composition having at least 50% Co, and, optionally Ni and/or Mn; the structure of M2 may be a composite structure and includes a rock-salt or disordered rock-salt phase; 0.5≤α<1, 0≤x≤1, 0≤y≤0.5, 0≤z≤1, 0≤x'≤0.5, 0≤y′≤0.5, 0.5≤z′≤1, and −0.1≤β≤0.1; the sum of x, y and z is 0.9-1.1, and the sum of x′, y′ and z′ is 0.9-1.1.

Cathode materials for secondary batteries

A cathode material comprising: a cathode active material of formula LiNiMnCoOor NaNiMnCoOand having a partial or whole particle concentration gradient, wherein at least two or three elements concentration gradually change in the part or whole particle from the center part to the surface part of the particle (i.e. along a vector radius); 0.5<x≤1, 0≤y≤0.33, 0≤z≤0.33.

An active cathode material containing particles with a core containing a lithium transition metal oxide, each core at least partially encapsulated by a layer including the lithium transition metal oxide and dopant cation; and an outer layer containing metal oxide; wherein the dopant cation is selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, Sn, Mg, Zr, Cu, Fe, Ca, W, Ga, Sc, Y, La, Hf, V, In, Nb, Ta, and any combination of two or more thereof; and the dopant cation is present in an amount of 10 wt. % or less of the particle.

An electrochemical device includes a lithium anode having a red poly(benzonitrile) coating covering at least a portion of the anode; a separator and an air cathode comprising reduced graphene oxide over gas diffusion layer; and an electrolyte comprising an ether solvent, benzonitrile, and a lithium salt.

Solvents and catalyst preparations for lithium-oxygen batteries

An electrochemical device includes a cathode comprising a first cathode component of lithium and SeS; and a second cathode component of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal sulfur and/or selenide, different from the first cathode component; an initial discharge product of a polyselenide and/or polysulfide anion charge compensated by an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal cation; an anode; a porous separator; and a non-aqueous electrolyte with one or more lithium salts, and one or more solvents; wherein the electrochemical device is a lithium sulfur and/or lithium selenide battery.

Rechargeable lithium sulfur and/or selenium battery

An electrochemical device includes an anode containing a phosphorus-carbon composite including a conductive carbon matrix and nano-sized phosphorus particles, wherein the nano-sized phosphorus particles are uniformly dispersed on the surface and/or pores of the carbon matrix.

Phosphorus-carbon composites as battery anode materials

An electrochemical device includes a cathode including elemental selenium, elemental sulfur, or selenium-sulfur containing composite; a negative electrode; a separator; and an electrolyte including a poly(alkyleneoxide) siloxane; and a salt; wherein a concentration of the salt in the electrolyte is sufficient to minimize dissolution of polysulfides/polyselenides formed during cycling of the device.

Poly(alkylene oxide) siloxane-based electrolytes for rechargeable batteries

A cathode active material of formula LiNiMnAlMOBor NaNiMnAlM'OB, wherein M is a combination of Ti, and Mg; M&#x2032; is Ti, Mg, or a combination of thereof; B is selected from the group of F, S, Se, or Cl; 0.8&#x3c;x&#x3c;1, 0&#x3c;y&#x3c;0.2, 0&#x3c;z&#x2264;0.2, 0&#x2264;&#x3b1;&#x2264;0.2, 0&#x2264;&#x3b5;&#x2264;0.1, 0.5&#x3c;x&#x2032;&#x3c;1, 0&#x3c;y&#x2032;&#x3c;0.5, 0&#x3c;z&#x2032;&#x2264;0.2, 0&#x2264;&#x3b1;&#x2032;&#x2264;0.2, and 0&#x2264;&#x3b5;&#x2032;&#x2264;0.1. The particle is a single crystal, a single particle, or a secondary particle comprising a plurality of primary particles; and the particle is a uniform composition or a concentration gradient composition.

Cathode active materials for secondary batteries

A cathode material comprising: a cathode active material of formula LiNiMnCoOor NaNiMnCoOand having a partial or whole particle concentration gradient, wherein at least two or three elements concentration gradually change in the part or whole particle from the center part to the surface part of the particle (i.e. along a vector radius); 0.5&#x3c;x&#x2264;1, 0&#x2264;y&#x2264;0.33, 0&#x2264;z&#x2264;0.33.

Cathode materials for lithium ion batteries, lithium ion batteries incorporating the cathode materials, and methods of operating the lithium ion batteries are provided. The materials, which are composed of lithium iron oxides, are able to undergo reversible anionic and cationic redox reactions with no Ogeneration.

Anionic redox active lithium iron oxide based cathode materials for rechargeable lithium ion batteries

An electrochemical device includes an air cathode comprising a SEI (solid electrolyte interphase) layer on a carbon support.

Cathode for alkaline earth air batteries

Anodic materials for lithium ions batteries include a current collector and a superlattice disposed on at least a portion of the current collector, the superlattice comprising: alternating layers of an anode active material and an anode inactive material; and a plurality of channels that extend from the current collector through the alternating layers of anode active material and anode inactive material.

Patterned anode for lithium-ion batteries

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