Corning Incorporated

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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Icfo—the Institute of Photonic Sciences

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics

Zhen Song

Michael Edward Badding

Curtis Robert Fekety

Xinyuan Liu

Jun Jin

Yanxia Ann Lu

Robert Michael Morena

Jusik Kim

Jacqueline Leslie Brown

Hyunseok Kim

Cameron Wayne Tanner

George Halsey Beall

Bruce Gardiner Aitken

Thomas Dale Ketcham

Jianguo Wang

Gary Edward Merz

Lanrik Wayne Kester

Dayue Jiang

Eric Lee Miller

Conor James Walsh

Lincoln James Miara

Weiguo Miao

Yunfeng Gu

SeWon Kim

Dongmin Im

Wageesha Senaratne

Valerio Pruneri

Robert George Manley

Thorsten Rolf Boger

Nicholas Francis Borrelli

Patrick David Tepesch

Kenneth Edward Hrdina

Dell Joseph St Julien

Steven Bolaji Ogunwumi

Wei Liu

Myungjin Lee

William Joseph Bouton

Amit Halder

Nagaraja Shashidhar

Richard Dominic Bomba

Tongping Xiu

Zhaoyin Wen

Yinghong Chen

Jennifer Anella Heine

Nathan Michael Zink

Xiao Huang

Cai Liu

Aaron David DeGeorge

Jianmeng Su

Qing Peng Wang

Karen E Thomas-Alyea

Kamal Kishore Soni

Taehwan Yu

Fuqiang Huang

Miriam Marchena Martín-Francés

Hui Bi

Connie Li

Tricia Anne Harnas

Ying Shi

Yufeng Tang

Yang Lu

Jason Allen Brown

Barbara Anna Oyer

Joel Edward Clinton

Mingli Cai

Liu Yao

Chujun Zheng

Brent Daniel Conway

Soumyadyuti Samai

Jianing Wang

Jaemyung Chang

Karen E Thomas-alyea

Yong-Gun Lee

Joseph Marc Whalen

Sewon Kim

Edward Badding Michael

Joseph M Whalen

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

An inorganic membrane filtration article and methods for making the same. The membrane filtration article includes a sintered flow-through ceramic honeycomb with a plurality of partition walls defining a plurality of open channels from an inlet end of the honeycomb to an outlet end of the honeycomb. The honeycomb is formed from a cordierite composition with low-sodium and/or low-potassium content for enhanced filtration performance.

Inorganic membrane filtration articles and methods thereof

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

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

The disclosure relates to porous garnet ribbons and methods of making such porous garnet ribbons.

Porous garnet ribbon by reaction sintering method

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

Disclosed herein are methods for forming a graphene film on a substrate, the methods comprising depositing graphene on a surface of the substrate by a first vapor deposition step to form a discontinuous graphene crystal layer; depositing a graphene oxide layer on the discontinuous graphene crystal layer to form a composite layer; and depositing graphene on the composite layer by a second vapor deposition step, wherein the graphene oxide layer is substantially reduced to a graphene layer during the second vapor deposition step. Transparent coated substrates comprising such graphene films are also disclosed herein, wherein the graphene films have a resistance of less than about 10 KΩ/sq.

Method for producing a graphene film

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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