Robert Boschgmbh

Yelena Gorlin

John F Christensen

Reinhardt Klein

Soo Kim

Nathan P Craig

Anantharaman Subbaraman

Jonathan Mailoa

Mordechai C Kornbluth

Georgy Samsonidze

Camille Usubelli

Rebecca Wilhelm

Boris Kozinsky

Sondra L Hellstrom

Jake Christensen

Michael Metzger

Christina Johnston

Karim Gadelrab

Farshad Ramezan Pour Safaei

Joerg Ziegler

Münir Besli

Ramachandran Subbaraman

Kevin Kimura

An electrode configuration for a battery cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes an electrically conductive protrusion inhibiting layer and a first insulating layer interposed between and electrically insulating the protrusion inhibiting layer from one of the positive and negative electrode.

Electrode configuration with a protrusion inhibiting separator

A proton exchange membrane fuel cell includes an anode catalyst layer, a cathode catalyst layer, a proton exchange membrane separating the anode catalyst layer from the cathode catalyst layer, an oxygen inlet configured to supply oxygen to the cathode catalyst layer, and a hydrogen inlet separate from the oxygen inlet and configured to supply hydrogen to the anode catalyst layer. The fuel cell is operable to convert the hydrogen from the hydrogen inlet to hydrogen ions at the anode catalyst layer and to produce an H2O byproduct at the cathode catalyst layer where the oxygen reacts with the hydrogen ions. The fuel cell includes a water outlet for the H2O byproduct that is separate from the oxygen inlet.

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Described herein is a polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) that incorporates a shunt into the membrane separator that becomes electronically conductive around a well-defined anodic onset potential, thereby preventing excessive anodic potentials at the positive electrode that would otherwise drive deleterious parasitic reactions such as catalyst dissolution or catalyst and carbon oxidation.

Reversible shunts for overcharge protection in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

Battery management systems and methods for use with lithium-ion batteries that employ silicon-based negative electrodes. The battery management systems and methods consider the lithiation/delithiation properties of silicon-based anode materials by considering voltage relaxation behavior. The battery management systems and methods may also be applied to other materials that similarly display an apparent hysteresis in the lithiation/delithiation processes and/or form multiple phases with different electrochemical properties.

Management systems and methods for silicon-containing lithium-ion batteries

A battery includes an electrode that exhibits a crystal structure change when lithiated beyond a threshold potential and a battery management system. The battery management system includes a controller configured to, while the battery is online, determine the threshold potential, determine battery operating parameters based on the determined threshold potential, and operate the battery based on the determined battery operating parameters.

System and method for operating batteries based on electrode crystal structure change

A method for generating battery characteristics for a battery having a target composition includes identifying open-circuit potential (OCP) characteristics for two similar battery compositions having different proportions of elements. The OCP characteristics are converted to dQ/dV characteristics and linearly combined to derived a target dQ/dV characteristic. The target dQ/dV characteristic is integrated to derived a target OCP characteristic. A battery constructed of the target composition is operated according to the target OCP characteristic.

Method for predicting an open-circuit potential curve as a function of lithiation for a class of cathode materials

A fuel cell first and second electrode catalyst layers and a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) situated therebetween. A graphene-based material coated onto a first and/or second surface of the first and/or second electrode catalyst layers. The graphene-based material has a number of defects including a number of quad-vacancy (QV) defects formed by a vacancy of four adjacent carbon atoms in the graphene-based material. The number of QV defects are configured to mitigate dissolution of the first and/or second catalyst materials through the first and/or second surface of the first and/or second electrode catalyst layers.

Fuel cell electrode catalyst layer coating

A battery system in one embodiment includes a cell with an anode including graphite and a minor active material that displays an apparent thermodynamic hysteresis. A controller is operably connected to a memory which is configured to execute program instructions in the memory to perform a charge of the cell to a first potential, and a discharge of the cell from the first potential to generate a first discharge versus capacity curve. After a second charge of the cell to a second potential and a second discharge of the cell from the second potential to generate a second discharge versus capacity curve, the controller identifies a shift between the first discharge versus capacity curve and the second discharge versus capacity curve and updates a model of the cell based upon the identified shift. The controller then modifies at least one operating parameter of the cell based upon the updated model.

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