Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Saft America

Thomas A Greszler

John P Salvador

Saori Tokuoka

Balasubramanian Lakshmanan

Gary M Robb

Hubert Gasteiger

Brian A Litteer

Frank Cao

Xilin Chen

Carine Margez

Jian Dong

Timothy J Fuller

Bradley M Houghtaling

Carine Margez Steinway

Kamen Nechev

Joong Sun Park

Tyler Ruff

Owen Ou

Pre-lithiation methods using lithium vanadium fluorophosphate (e.g., LiVPOF and its derivatives) ('LVPF') as a cathode active material in a lithium-ion secondary battery. The pre-lithiation methods include compensating for an expected loss of active lithium by selecting LVPF having a specific pre-lithiated chemistry (or a blend of LVPF selected to have a specific pre-lithiated chemistry) and selecting a total amount of the pre-lithiated LVPF. The pre-lithiation methods may include initially charging the lithium-ion secondary battery at the lower of the two charge/discharge plateaus of LVPF to release active lithium.

Pre-lithiation method and pre-lithiated lithium-ion secondary battery

Provided is a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion battery, the positive electrode active material including a blend of a doped lithium manganese iron phosphate (dLMFP) according to the formula: LiMnFeMPO, wherein 0.9&#x3c;x+y&#x3c;1; and M is one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca and Ba with one or both of a lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NMC) compound having a Ni content greater than 0.6 relative to a total amount of metals other than Li and a lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) compound. In particular, provided is a blend at a weight ratio of dLMFP to NMC and/or NCA (i.e., dLMFP:(NMC+NCA)) of &#x3e;70:&#x3c;30, such as 75:25, 80:20, 85:15, 90:10, etc.

Cathode materials for lithium ion batteries

Provided is pouch battery including an electrode assembly, and a case in which the electrode assembly is sealed and housed; the electrode assembly including a stacked structure of a sheet cathode, a sheet separator, and a sheet anode; the sheet cathode including a positive electrode active material disposed on a current collector; the sheet anode is thin conductive sheet on which lithium metal reversibly deposits on a surface thereof during discharging; the sheet anode being made of a conductive material other than lithium and having a surface substantially free from lithium metal prior to charging the battery. The pouch battery design is flexible and lightweight and provides high power density, making it a suitable replacement for conventional lithium-ion primary batteries and thermal batteries in many applications. Power can be further increased by the application of external compression. Additives and formation conditions can be tailored for forming a solid-electrolyte interface (SEI).

Lithium-ion primary pouch battery

Provided are an electrolyte for low temperature operation of lithium titanate electrodes, graphite electrodes, and lithium-ion batteries as well as electrodes and batteries employing the same. The electrolyte contains 1 to 30 vol % of a low molecular weight ester having a molecular weight of less than 105 g/mol and at least one non-fluorinated carbonate. An electrolyte additive may include 0.1 to 10 wt % of fluorinated ethylene carbonate, particularly when used with a graphite anode. Another electrolyte contains a high content of the low molecular weight ester of at least 70 vol %.

Electrolyte including low molecular weight ester and non-fluorinated carbonate for low temperature operation of lithium titanate and graphite electrodes, and lithium-ion batteries

A fuel cell system including a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells, each of the fuel cells including an electrolyte membrane disposed between an anode and a cathode, an anode supply manifold in fluid communication with the anodes of the fuel cells, the anode supply manifold providing fluid communication between a source of hydrogen and the anodes, an anode exhaust manifold in fluid communication with the anodes of the fuel cells, and a fan in fluid communication with the anodes of the fuel cells, wherein the fan controls a flow of fluid through the anodes of the fuel cells after the fuel cell system is shutdown.

Shutdown strategy to avoid carbon corrosion due to slow hydrogen/air intrusion rates

A system and method for determining a maximum average cell voltage set-point for fuel cells in a fuel cell stack that considers oxidation of the catalyst in the fuel cells. The method includes determining the average cell voltage, the stack current density (I) and an internal resistance (R) of membranes in the fuel cells to calculate an IR corrected average cell voltage. The IR corrected average cell voltage is then used to determine the oxidation state of the catalyst particles using, for example, an empirical model. The oxidation state of the particles is then used to calculate the maximum average cell voltage set-point of the fuel cells, which is used to set the minimum power requested from the fuel cell stack.

Method for determining an average cell voltage for fuel cells

Dynamic voltage suppression in a fuel cell system

An ink composition for forming a fuel cell electrode, and in particular, a fuel cell cathode layer is provided. The ink composition includes a first protogenic group-containing ionomer having an equivalent weight less than 800, an optional second protogenic group-containing ionomer having an equivalent weight greater than 800, and a catalyst composition. Electrode layers formed from the ink composition are also provided.

Electrode with reduced mud cracking via mixed equivalent weight ionomers

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Thomas A Greszler