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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2003
John H. Harreld, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Galen D. Stucky, Goleta, CA (US);
Nathan L. Mitchell, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jeff S. Sakamoto, Arcadia, CA (US);
John H. Harreld, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Galen D. Stucky, Goleta, CA (US);
Nathan L. Mitchell, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jeff S. Sakamoto, Arcadia, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of making colloidal sphere templates and the sphere-templated porous materials made from the templates. The templated porous materials or thin films comprise micron and submicron-scaled spheres in ordered, disordered, or partially ordered arrays. The invention is useful in the synthesis of submicron porous, metallic tin-based and other high capacity anode materials with controlled pore structures for application in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The expected benefits of the resulting nanostructured metal films include a large increase in lithium storage capacity, rate capability, and improved stability with electrochemical cycling.