Corning Incorporated

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics

Michael Edward Badding

Thomas Dale Ketcham

Zhen Song

Jacqueline Leslie Brown

Lanrik Wayne Kester

Dell Joseph St Julien

William Joseph Bouton

Eric Lee Miller

Cameron Wayne Tanner

Gary Edward Merz

Conor James Walsh

Jun Jin

Bruce Gardiner Aitken

Curtis Robert Fekety

Yanxia Ann Lu

Xinyuan Liu

Raja Rao Wusirika

Jusik Kim

Douglas Edward Brackley

James William Zimmermann

Hyunseok Kim

Indrajit Dutta

George Halsey Beall

Robert Michael Morena

Xinghua Li

Scott Christopher Pollard

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

Sean Matthew Garner

Mark Alejandro Quesada

Lincoln James Miara

SeWon Kim

Dongmin Im

William Peter Addiego

Susan Lee Schiefelbein

Ming-Jun Li

Kenneth Edward Hrdina

Sasha Marjanovic

Linda Ruth Pinckney

Christopher Lee Timmons

Yawei Sun

Richard Curwood Peterson

Sujanto Widjaja

Sriram Rangarajan Iyer

Robert George Manley

John Forrest Wight, Jr

David Myron Lineman

Myungjin Lee

Monika Backhaus-Ricoult

Weiguo Miao

Benedict Yorke Johnson

Nadja Teresia Lönnroth

Nagaraja Shashidhar

Richard Dominic Bomba

Nathan Michael Zink

Zhaoyin Wen

Tongping Xiu

John Albert Olenick

Timothy Joseph Curry

Roman E Hurny

Kathleen Ritter Olenick

Jeremy Paananen

Thomas Silverblatt

Viswanathan Venkateswaran

Jennifer Anella Heine

Andrew Peter Kittleson

Dale Charles Marshall

Yinghong Chen

Emmanuel Chima Okpara

Xiao Huang

Cai Liu

Jianmeng Su

Qing Peng Wang

Karen E Thomas-Alyea

Michael Fischer

Taehwan Yu

Paul Martin Elliott

Denis Pavlovich Lukanin

Aaron David DeGeorge

Tricia Anne Harnas

Ying Shi

Ryan David Bayliss

Cheng-Gang Zhuang

John David Helfinstine

Karan Mehrotra

Yang Lu

Paul Oakley Johnson

Jeffrey Earl Cortright

Jeffrey Allen Miller

Peter J Kalal

Irene Marjorie Slater

Jason Allen Brown

James Micheal Harris

Sandra L Hagg

Francis Martin Behan

Shantanu Roy

Steven F Hoysan

Brian Alan Kent

Atanas Valentinov Gagov

Nikolay Zhelev Zhelev

Seo-Yeong Cho

A solid electrolyte including: a lithium ion inorganic conductive layer; and an amorphous phase on a surface of the lithium ion inorganic conductive layer, wherein the amorphous phase is an irradiation product of the lithium ion inorganic conductive layer. Also, the method of preparing the same, and a lithium battery including the solid electrolyte.

Solid electrolyte, method of preparing the same, and lithium battery including the solid electrolyte

Solid lithium-ion ceramic electrolyte membranes have an average thickness of less than 200 micrometers. A constituent electrolyte material has an average grain size of less than 10 micrometers. The solid lithium-ion ceramic electrolyte is free-standing. Alternatively, solid lithium-ion electrolyte membranes have a composition represented by LiMM'M″(PO), where M is a 3ion, M′ is a 4ion, M″ is a 5ion, 0≤x≤2 and 0≤y≤2.

Reactive sintering of ceramic lithium-ion solid electrolytes

A method of manufacturing ceramic tape includes a step of directing a tape of partially-sintered ceramic into a furnace. The tape is partially-sintered such that grains of the ceramic are fused to one another yet the tape still includes at least 10% porosity by volume, where the porosity refers to volume of the tape unoccupied by the ceramic. The method further includes steps of conveying the tape through the furnace and further sintering the tape as the tape is conveyed through the furnace. The porosity of the tape decreases during the further sintering step.

Manufacturing line, process, and sintered article

A lithium-sulfur battery includes a substrate; a sulfur cathode disposed on the substrate; a coating layer disposed on the cathode; a first interlayer disposed on the coating layer; a solid-state electrolyte disposed on the first interlayer; a second interlayer disposed on the electrolyte; and a lithium anode disposed on the second interlayer, such that the coating layer is further disposed within pores of the cathode.

Modified cathodes for solid-state lithium sulfur batteries and methods of manufacturing thereof

A solid garnet composition includes a bulk composition having a lithium garnet; and a surface composition having a protonated garnet on at least a portion of the exterior surface of the lithium garnet, such that the protonated garnet is uniformly disposed over the at least a portion of the exterior surface of the lithium garnet. A method of making a solid garnet composition includes pre-treating an air sensitive lithium-containing garnet with water to form a uniform protonated garnet surface composition; and contacting the uniform protonated garnet surface composition with an acid to form a porous uniform protonated garnet surface composition.

Method for making uniform porous surface layer on garnet thin film

Lithium-containing polycrystalline ceramic sheets include grains having an average grain size of less than 5 μm, a relative density greater than 90%, and a thickness of up to 200 μm. In aspects, the lithium-containing polycrystalline ceramic sheets include an outer edge of the sheet that has no height variations greater than 1 mm from baseline in a perimeter trace. In aspects, the lithium-containing polycrystalline ceramic sheets include microstructural features of an outer edge of the sheet are no greater than about ⅓ the thickness of the sheet. In aspects, the lithium-containing polycrystalline ceramic sheets include an outer edge of the sheet that is enriched in lithium relative to a bulk of the sheet.

Micromachined electrolyte sheet

A lithium-metal battery, includes: a substrate; a cathode disposed on the substrate; a garnet solid-state electrolyte disposed on the cathode; and a lithium anode disposed on the garnet solid-state electrolyte, such that a modification layer is disposed at an interface of the lithium anode and garnet solid-state electrolyte, the modification layer includes: a first portion; and a second portion, such that the first portion has a lithium component and the second portion has a garnet component. A method of forming a lithium-metal battery, includes: stacking a garnet source with at least one lithium source; and heating the stack at a temperature of at least 300° C. for a time in a range of 1 sec to 20 min to form a modification layer, such that the modification layer is disposed at an interface of the garnet source and the lithium source.

Li/garnet electrolyte interface with low interfacial resistance

An all-solid secondary battery including: a cathode layer including a cathode active material layer; an anode layer; and a solid electrolyte layer between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer including a solid electrolyte, wherein the anode layer includes an anode current collector, a first anode active material layer in contact with the solid electrolyte layer, and a second anode active material layer between the anode current collector and the first anode active material layer, wherein the first anode active material layer is a lithium-containing first metal layer, wherein the second anode active material layer includes a carbon-containing anode active material or a carbon-containing anode active material and a second metal, and wherein a surface of the solid electrolyte layer adjacent to the first anode active material layer has a porosity of 40 percent or less.

All-solid secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same

A cathode configured for a solid-state battery includes a body having grains of inorganic material sintered to one another, wherein the grains comprise lithium. A thickness of the body is from 3 μm to 100 μm. The first major surface and the second major surface have an unpolished granular profile such that the profile includes grains protruding outward from the respective major surface with a height of at least 25 nm and no more than 150 μm relative to recessed portions of the respective major surface at boundaries between the respective grains.

Doped-zirconia ceramic ribbon

A composite ceramic including: a lithium garnet major phase; and a grain growth inhibitor minor phase, as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of making composite ceramic, pellets and tapes thereof, a solid electrolyte, and an electrochemical device including the solid electrolyte, as defined herein.

Lithium-garnet solid electrolyte composite, tape articles, and methods thereof

A cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery includes a sulfur-based composite layer having a porosity in a range of 60% to 99%; and a conductive polymer disposed atop the composite layer and within pores of the composite layer. Moreover, a method of forming a cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery includes providing a substrate; disposing a sulfur-based slurry layer on the substrate; freeze-drying the slurry layer to form a sulfur-based composite layer having a porosity in a range of 60% to 99%; and disposing a conductive polymer atop the composite layer and within pores of the composite layer.

Cathodes for solid-state lithium sulfur batteries and methods of manufacturing thereof

Cathode for a solid-state battery

Passivated LiLaZrO(LLZO) particles, tape casting powders and slip compositions including the particles, methods of forming the particles, methods of tape casting using the particles, green tapes including the particles, cast LLZO films formed from the particles, and lithium batteries including the cast LLZO film. A passivated LLZO particle includes an LLZO core, wherein the LLZO is optionally doped with one or more elements. The passivated LLZO particle also includes a shell including H-LLZO, HO-LLZO, and/or LiCO.

Passivated LLZO particles and tape casting of LLZO films

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Campbell, NY, United States of America

Michael Edward Badding