Ii-vi Delaware, Inc.

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas

Xiaoming Li

Wen-Qing Xu

Shailesh Patkar

Elgin E Eissler

Giovanni Barbarossa

Yaxia Yin

Shuaifeng Zhang

Yu-Guo Guo

Yancheng Zhang

Christopher Stephen Koeppen

Marta Sevilla Solis

Antonio Benito Fuertes Arias

Colin Moore

Chengkun Xu

Di Lan

Charan Masarupu

Stephen P Rummel

An immobilized chalcogen system or body includes a mixture or combination of chalcogen and carbon. The carbon can be in the form of a carbon skeleton. The chalcogen can include oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or tellurium, or a combination of any two or more of oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium. The activation energy for chalcogen to escape the immobilized chalcogen system or body is ≥96 kJ/mole.

Immobilized chalcogen and use thereof in a rechargeable battery

An immobilized selenium body, made from carbon and selenium and optionally sulfur, makes selenium more stable, requiring a higher temperature or an increase in kinetic energy for selenium to escape from the immobilized selenium body and enter a gas system, as compared to selenium alone. Immobilized selenium localized in a carbon skeleton can be utilized in a rechargeable battery. Immobilization of the selenium can impart compression stress on both the carbon skeleton and the selenium. Such compression stress enhances the electrical conductivity in the carbon skeleton and among the selenium particles and creates an interface for electrons to be delivered and or harvested in use of the battery. A rechargeable battery made from immobilized selenium can be charged or discharged at a faster rate over conventional batteries and can demonstrate excellent cycling stability.

Immobilized selenium, a method of making, and uses of immobilized selenium in a rechargeable battery

An immobilized chalcogen system or body includes an element of chalcogen, an electrically conductive material, and a hydrophilic membrane gate. The hydrophilic membrane gate may be used to isolate hydrophobic regions, one related to polychalcogenide ion(s) and another related to a hydrophobic electrolyte system. The hydrophilic membrane gate may prevent polychalcogenide from forming, and may provide control of undesirable parasitic mass transport and undesirable electron transport inside a chalcogen-based battery, and thereby allow the battery to cycle at a high specific capacity with a long cycling life. If desired, the immobilized chalcogen system or body may be employed in a cathode of a rechargeable battery.

Immobilized chalcogen comprising a chalcogen element, an electrically conductive material, and hydrophilic membrane gate and use thereof in a rechargeable battery

In a method of preparing an immobilized selenium system or body, a selenium-carbon-oxygen mixture is formed. The mixture is then heated to a temperature above the melting temperature of selenium and the heated mixture is then cooled to ambient or room temperature, thereby forming the immobilized selenium system or body.

Immobilized selenium in a porous carbon with the presence of oxygen, a method of making, and uses of immobilized selenium in a rechargeable battery

An aluminum alloy wire, more specifically an aluminum-scandium wire, is adapted for an additive processing operation. A spool of material, containing an aluminum alloy wire, and a method of performing an additive processing operation, using an aluminum alloy wire, are also disclosed.

Aluminum-scandium wire for additive processing operation

An immobilized chalcogen system or body includes a mixture or combination of chalcogen and carbon. The carbon can be in the form of a carbon skeleton. The chalcogen can include oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or tellurium, or a combination of any two or more of oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium. The activation energy for chalcogen to escape the immobilized chalcogen system or body is &#x2265;96 kJ/mole.

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