APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Liquid based and solid-state lithium-ion batteries requiring higher energy density, faster charging rate, better cycling stability, longer calendar life, and improved safety BENEFITS: Scalable and cost-effective methods that can be easily adopted into the current production lines of cathode materials Delivers significantly improved … [Read more...] about Method for Scalable Synthesis of Single-Crystal Lithium NMC Cathode Materials 2021-067
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Miscible Polymer Blend Electrolytes: A New Material for High-Performance, Safer Lithium and Solid State Batteries 2020-060
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Rechargeable batteries for portable electronics as well as small and large electric vehicles Grid-scale storage for home or power station BENEFITS: Improves battery performance by improving ionic conductivity and other transport properties, through blending chemically different polymers Potentially reduces overall battery … [Read more...] about Miscible Polymer Blend Electrolytes: A New Material for High-Performance, Safer Lithium and Solid State Batteries 2020-060
High-rate Li-rich Cathode Materials Enabled by Non-topotactic Reactions 2020-146
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Batteries, electronics, electrical vehicles BENEFITS: Enables fast Li transport Significantly improves the rate performance of Mn- and Ni-based DRX materials compared to previous technologies BACKGROUND: Li-rich cation-disordered rocksalt (DRX) materials have promising high capacities and energy densities, but typically … [Read more...] about High-rate Li-rich Cathode Materials Enabled by Non-topotactic Reactions 2020-146
Novel Cost-effective Fluorination Method to Synthesize High-Energy Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials 2020-096
APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY: Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) BENEFITS: High energy density Cost-effective Scalable Co-free and Ni-free Excellent rate capability and cycling stability BACKGROUND: Currently, layered oxides are the most popular choices for high energy LIB cathodes. Alternative cathode materials may provide further improvements to this … [Read more...] about Novel Cost-effective Fluorination Method to Synthesize High-Energy Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials 2020-096
Dissolvable Crosslinked Polymer Binder for Battery Electrode Recycling 2020-089
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Binder for sulfur electrodes in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) rechargeable batteries Binder for negative and positive electrodes of lithium-ion batteries and advanced lithium-ion batteries BENEFITS: The three-dimensional network structure of the dissolvable ionic crosslinked polymer (DICP) significantly enhances the mechanical … [Read more...] about Dissolvable Crosslinked Polymer Binder for Battery Electrode Recycling 2020-089