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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2020
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Llc, Golden, CO (US);
Nathan Richard Neale, Denver, CO (US);
Gerard Zachary Carroll, Golden, CO (US);
Gregory Frank Pach, Denver, CO (US);
Maxwell Connor Schulze, Golden, CO (US);
Trevor Russell Martin, Lakewood, CO (US);
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a silicon nanoparticle that includes a core of silicon having an outer surface that includes *SiHR, where *Si is a silicon atom on the outer surface of the core, the first layer covers at least a portion of the outer surface, R is a ligand that includes at least one of —O—R', —C—R′, —N—R′, —Si—R′, and/or —S—R′, and R′ is a functional group that includes at least one of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur, and/or phosphorus.