2035 results about "Carbon particle" patented technology

A process for the production of coated silicon/carbon particles comprising: providing a carbon residue forming material; providing silicon particles; coating said silicon particles with said carbon residue forming material to form coated silicon particles; providing particles of a carbonaceous material; coating said particles of carbonaceous material with said carbon residue forming material to form coated carbonaceous particles; embedding said coated silicon particles onto said coated carbonaceous particles to form silicon/carbon composite particles; coating said silicon/carbon composite particles with said carbon residue forming material to form coated silicon/carbon composite particles; and stabilizing the coated composite particles by subjecting said coated composite particles to an oxidation reaction. The coated composite particles will have a substantially smooth coating. The particles may be coated with multiple layers of carbon residue forming material/

An adsorbent material fabricated into a reinforcement-free, self-supported coherent thin sheet and configured for use as a parallel passage contactor element in adsorption/separation applications with gases and liquids is disclosed. The adsorbent sheet material is obtained by enmeshing fine adsorbent particulates in a polymer binder. Particulates include but are not limited to carbon particles, inorganic oxides particles, or ceramic particles, or synthetic polymer resin particles. The adsorbent sheet advantageously contains a large volume percentage of active adsorbent particles. The parallel passage contactor device fabricated from the adsorbent sheet material is characterized by minimal mass transfer resistance and better separation efficiency expressed as height equivalent to a theoretical plate, while it maintains most of the adsorptive properties of the starting particulates, and can be used in gas separation applications with short adsorption cycles, such as rapid pressure swing adsorption, rotary concentrators, rapid electric swing adsorption.

A portable, variable speed cabin air purifier (10) operates independently of a vehicle HVAC system and is constructed as an armrest or console (114) that can be placed on any passenger seat and held in place by the seat belt. The air purifier (10) may also be strapped to the floor of a van or SUV, or be positioned in the trunk (100) of a sedan with ducting (104, 108) installed into the vehicle cabin. A 12 volt DC blower (48) can be connected to the cigarette lighter outlet (62) or permanently wired in. Three to five replaceable packed bed filter media packets (70-76), a HEPA filter (78) and a carbon impregnated filter (80) may be installed. The filter media packets (70-76) comprise filter media envelopes (86) of a non-woven, gross particulate filter material packed with other filter media (88), including desiccants, sorbents, chemisorbents, pelletized and granular carbon particles, and catalysts, and are placed between grates (82, 84) and installed in a selected sequence.

A solid polymer electrolyte membrane having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, where the solid polymer electrolyte membrane has a failure force greater than about 115 grams and comprises a composite membrane consisting essentially of (a) at least one expanded PTFE membrane having a porous microstructure of polymeric fibrils, and (b) at least one ion exchange material impregnated throughout the porous microstructure of the expanded PTFE membrane so as to render an interior volume of the expanded PTFE membrane substantially occlusive; (c) at least one substantially occlusive, electronically insulating first composite layer interposed between the expanded PTFE membrane and the first surface, the first composite layer comprising a plurality of first carbon particles supporting a catalyst comprising platinum and an ion exchange material, wherein a plurality of the first carbon particles has a particle size less than about 75 nm, or less than about 50 nm, or less than about 25 nm.

A catalyst layer on a substrate material which contains a proton-conducting polymer (ionomer), electrically conductive carbon particles and fine particles of at least one precious metal. The catalyst layer is obtainable by coating the substrate material with an ink which contains a dispersion of the carbon particles and at least one organic precious metal complex compound in a solution of the ionomer, and drying the coating below a temperature at which the ionomer or the substrate material is thermally damaged, the precious metals in the complex compounds being present with an oxidation number of 0 and the complex compounds being thermally decomposed during drying to form the fine precious metal particles.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a high thermal conductive element that has improved thermal conductivity in the layer direction while retaining the high thermal conductivity characteristics in the planar direction possessed by graphite. The present invention is a high thermal conductive element in which carbon particles are dispersed in a graphite-based matrix, wherein (1) the c axis of the graphene layers constituting the graphite are substantially parallel, (2) the thermal conductivity κ∥ in a direction perpendicular to the c axis is at least 400 W/m·k and no more than 1000 W/m·k, and (3) the thermal conductivity κ⊥ in a direction parallel to the c axis is at least 10 W/m·k and no more than 100 W/m·k.

To provide a negative electrode active material for an electricity storage device, which has considerably enhanced low-temperature characteristic, increased energy density, and increased output power. A negative electrode active material is made of a carbon composite containing carbon particles as a core and a fibrous carbon having a graphene structure, which is formed on the surfaces and/or the inside of the carbon particles, wherein the carbon composite has a volume of all mesopores within 0.005 to 1.0 cm³/g, and a volume of the mesopores each with a pore diameter ranging from 100 to 400 Å of not less than 25% of the volume of all mesopores.

The present invention relates to an electrode metal material for batteries, capacitors, etc, used in contact with non-aqueous electrolyte, and particularly to a capacitor formed of the electrode metal material, and provides a valve metal material capable of decreasing the internal resistance of the capacitor. The electrode metal material comprises a valve metal material and numerous carbon particles included in the surface of the valve metal material. The carbon particles are further fixed in the surface of the valve metal material so as to expose to the surface. The electrode metal material is coated with an activated carbon layer and used as a double-layer electrode for an electric double-layer capacitor. The carbon particles included in the surface ensure conduction between the activated carbon layer and the valve metal material. With this configuration, even if the surface of the valve metal material is oxidized, the internal resistance of the electrode is not decreased, the internal resistance of the capacitor is decreased, and the capacitance of the capacitor is increased.

The invention relates to a nano carbon material with a network structure consisting of polymer chains, in particular to a nano carbon sulfur composite material with a network structure suitable to be used in a secondary lithium sulfur battery anode and a preparation method thereof. The carbon sulfur composite material is formed by adopting the following steps of: introducing functional groups onto carbon particles by adopting the electric conductivity and the porosity of a carbon material and the reaction capacity of similar condensed aromatics of the carbon material and by means of an irreversible chemical reaction; introducing the polymer chains, wherein the polymer chains are stretched, bent and cross-linked on the surfaces of the carbon particles to form a cross-linked network structure; and compounding a sulfur element or a polysulfide (m is more than 2) containing -Sm- structure into the network structure to form the nano carbon sulfur composite material with the network structure. The carbon sulfur composite material has a rich cross-linked network structure, nano-scale network pores constrain the sulfur element or the polysulfide (m is more than 2) containing the -Sm- structure in the network, and the active substances are limited in a certain region to react, so that the composite material has predominant electrochemical performance.

A method for making a lithium mixed metal compound includes: preparing a reactant mixture that contains a metal compound, a lithium compound, and optionally, a phosphate-containing compound; and exposing the reactant mixture to an atmosphere in the presence of suspended carbon particles, and conducting a reduction to reduce oxidation state of at least one metal ion of the reactant mixture at a temperature sufficient to form a reaction product containing lithium and the reduced metal ion.

In a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including a hydrogen ion conductive polymer electrolyte membrane; a pair of electrodes composed of catalyst layers sandwiching the hydrogen ion conductive polymer electrolyte membrane between them and gas diffusion layers in contact with the catalyst layers; a conductive separator plate having a gas flow channel for supplying a fuel gas to one of the electrodes; and a conductive separator plate having a gas flow channel for supplying an oxidant gas to the other electrode, in order to bring a hydrogen ion conductive polymer electrolyte and a catalyst metal of the catalyst layers containing the hydrogen ion conductive polymer electrolyte and conductive carbon particles carrying the catalyst metal sufficiently and uniformly into contact with each other, the polymer electrolyte is provided in pores of an agglomerate structure of the conductive carbon particles. Consequently, the reaction area inside the electrodes is increased, and higher performance is exhibited.

A solid polymer electrolyte-catalyst combined electrode which comprises a solid polymer electrolyte and carbon particles carrying a catalytic material. The solid polymer fuel cell electrode contains carbon particles which are monolayer carbon nano-horn aggregates. The monolayer carbon nano-horns are made up of monolayer carbon nano-tubes of a specific structures each having a conical shape at one end, and are aggregated spherically. A solid polymer fuel cell using the electrode is also provided.