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Noel Rawle Vanier

Cheng-Hung Hung

Eldon L Decker

Xiangling Xu

Calum Hugh Munro

David B Asay

Stuart Damon Hellring

Sean Purdy

Kurt Gordon Olson

W David Polk

Stephen Brian Istivan

Rachel B Wilson

Shanti Swarup

Randy E Daughenbaugh

Shan Cheng

Robert E Jennings

Wei Wang

Ran Yi

John T Donnelly

Matthew E Wehrle

Gregory J McCollum

Masayuki Nakajima

John R Schneider

Dennis L Faler

James A Claar

Brian Edward Woodworth

Edward Richard Millero, Jr

Umesh C Desai

Tien-Chieh Chao

Edward Francis Rakiewicz

Donghai Wang

John W Burgman

Stephen G McQuown

Justin Bohn

Gina R Bonnett

Anil Kumar

James B O'Dwyer

Dennis A Simpson

Cynthia Kutchko

Michael J Pawlik

Songwei Lu

Raphael O Kollah

Brian K Rearick

Kaliappa G Ragunathan

Timothy A Okel

Deborah E Hayes

Irina G Schwendeman

James P Colton

John M Furar

John A Winter

Justin Jonathan Martin

Britt A Minch

Cheryl E Belli

Mark D Merritt

Charles F Kahle

Mark Edward Endlish

David C Martin

Jessica M Williamson

Anand K Atmuri

Beverly Bendiksen

Robert Cavlovich

Adam Choros

Caitlyn Beth Neidig

Gregory J Mccollum

Edward R Millero

Calum H Munro

Brian E Woodworth

Lithium ion battery anodes including graphenic carbon particles are disclosed. Lithium ion batteries containing such anodes are also disclosed. The anodes include mixtures of lithium-reactive metal particles such as silicon, graphenic carbon particles, and a binder. The use of graphenic carbon particles in the anodes results in improved performance of the lithium ion batteries.

Lithium ion battery anodes including graphenic carbon particles

Graphenic carbon particles having controlled aspect ratios, surface areas, numbers of carbon atom layers, and Raman spectroscopy peak ratios are disclosed. The graphenic carbon particles may include three or more stacked carbon atom layers, and may have a Raman spectroscopy 2D/G peak ratio of at least 1:1. Adjacent carbon atom layers within each graphenic carbon particle may be slightly misaligned with respect to each other to form a turbostatic structure.

Graphenic carbon particles

Electrodepositable compositions including an aqueous medium, an ionic resin and particles including thermally produced graphenic carbon nanoparticles are disclosed. The compositions may also include lithium-containing particles. Electrodeposited coatings comprising a cured ionic resin, thermally produced graphenic carbon nanoparticle and lithium-containing particles are also disclosed. The electrodeposited coatings may be used as coatings for lithium ion battery electrodes.

Electrodepositable compositions and electrodeposited coatings including graphenic carbon particles

The invention includes a radiation diffracting member having a crystalline structure comprising an ordered periodic array of hollow particles. The radiation diffracting member also includes a matrix material in which the array of particles is received.

Hollow particle crystalline colloidal arrays

Methods are disclosed in which an electrically conductive substrate is immersed in electrodepositable composition including graphenic carbon particles, the substrate serving as an electrode in an electrical circuit comprising the electrode and a counter-electrode immersed in the composition, a coating being applied onto or over at least a portion of the substrate as electric current is passed between the electrodes. The electrodepositable composition comprises an aqueous medium, an ionic resin, and solid particles including graphenic carbon particles. The solid particles may also include lithium-containing particles.

Methods of coating an electrically conductive substrate and related electrodepositable compositions including graphenic carbon particles

Curable film-forming sol-gel compositions that are essentially free of inorganic oxide particles are provided. The compositions contain: a tetraalkoxysilane; a solvent component; and non-oxide particles, and further contain either i) a mineral acid or ii) an epoxy functional trialkoxysilane and a metal-containing catalyst. Coated articles demonstrating antiglare properties are also provided, comprising: (a) a substrate having at least one surface; and (b) a cured film-forming composition applied thereon, formed from a curable sol-gel composition comprising a silane and non-oxide particles. A method of forming an antiglare coating on a substrate is also provided. The method comprises: (a) applying a curable film-forming sol-gel composition on at least one surface of the substrate to form a coated substrate; and (b) subjecting the coated substrate to thermal conditions for a time sufficient to effect cure of the sol-gel composition and form a coated substrate with a sol-gel network layer having anti-glare properties.

Curable film-forming sol-gel compositions and anti-glare coated articles formed from them

Coating compositions containing graphenic carbon particles are disclosed. The graphenic carbon particles may be thermally produced and dispersed in thermoset and/or thermoset polymeric film coatings. The cured coatings exhibit desirable properties such as increased electrical conductivity.

Electrically conductive coatings containing graphenic carbon particles

Supercapacitor electrodes comprising active charge supporting particles, graphenic carbon particles, and a binder are disclosed. The active charge supporting particles may comprise activated carbon. The graphenic carbon particles may be thermally produced. The electrodes may further comprise electrically conductive carbon.

Supercapacitor electrodes including graphenic carbon particles

Thermally produced graphenic carbon particles for use as black pigments are disclosed. The pigments may be used in coatings and bulk articles to provide desirable jetness characteristics and absorbance at visible wavelengths.

Black pigments comprising graphenic carbon particles

Thermally produced graphenic carbon particles for use as absorptive pigments are disclosed. The pigments may be used in coatings and bulk articles to provide favorable absorbance characteristics at various wavelengths including visible and infrared regions.

Absorptive pigments comprising graphenic carbon particles

Resistive heating assemblies comprising a substrate, a conductive coating comprising graphenic carbon particles applied to at least a portion of the substrate, and a source of electrical current connected to the conductive coating are disclosed. Conductive coatings comprising graphenic carbon particles having a thickness of less than 100 microns and an electrical conductivity of greater than 10,000 S/m are also disclosed.

Resistive heating coatings containing graphenic carbon particles

Lithium ion battery electrodes including graphenic carbon particles are disclosed. Lithium ion batteries containing such electrodes are also disclosed. The graphenic carbon particles may be used in cathodes of such batteries by depositing a graphenic carbon particle-containing coating of a conductive substrate such as a metal foil The use of graphenic carbon particles in the cathodes results in improved performance of the lithium ion batteries.

Lithium ion battery electrodes including graphenic carbon particles

A radiation-scattering composition, comprising a plurality of colloidal crystals or aggregates of colloidal crystals, each said crystal comprising radiation reflecting particles in a colloidal array and radiation absorbing particles dispersed in the crystals. The composition scatters radiation in a wavelength band in substantially all directions and absorbs radiation.

Highly reflective crystalline colloidal arrays with radiation absorbing particles

A reflective material comprising a multilayered array of particles encapsulated by a matrix material, the reflective material defining a primary surface, the reflective material exhibiting: (i) visible retroreflection of incident radiation, wherein a wavelength of visible retroreflected radiation decreases from a first visible wavelength at a first angle to the primary surface to a second, shorter wavelength of visible retroreflected radiation as the viewing angle to the primary surface increases; and (ii) Bragg diffraction of the incident radiation, wherein the wavelength of radiation Bragg diffracted normal to the primary surface is longer than the wavelength of visible radiation, such that no visible radiation is retroreflected or Bragg diffracted in a direction normal to the primary surface.

Retroreflective colorants

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