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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2010
Kwai S. Chan, San Antonio, TX (US);
Candace K. Chan, San Antonio, TX (US);
Wuwei Liang, San Antonio, TX (US);
Kwai S. Chan, San Antonio, TX (US);
Candace K. Chan, San Antonio, TX (US);
Wuwei Liang, San Antonio, TX (US);
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed at an electrode and methods for forming such electrode for a battery wherein the electrode comprises silicon clathrate. The silicon clathrate may include silicon clathrate Sicontaining an arrangement of 20-atom and 24-atom cages fused together through 5 atom pentagonal rings and/or silicon clathrate Sicontaining an arrangement of 20-atom and 28-atom cages fused together through 5 atom pentagonal rings. The silicon clathrate may be present as particles having a largest linear dimension in the range of 0.1 μm to 100.0 μm.