1520 results about "Electrochemical energy storage" patented technology

Disclosed is an electrode for an electrochemical energy storage device, the electrode comprising a self-supporting layer of a mixture of graphene sheets and spacer particles and / or binder particles, wherein the electrode is prepared without using water, solvent, or liquid chemical. The graphene electrode prepared by the solvent-free process exhibits many desirable features and advantages as compared to the corresponding electrode prepared by a known wet process. These advantages include a higher electrode specific surface area, higher energy storage capacity, improved or higher packing density or tap density, lower amount of binder required, lower internal electrode resistance, more consistent and uniform dispersion of graphene sheets and binder, reduction or elimination of undesirable effect of electrolyte oxidation or decomposition due to the presence of water, solvent, or chemical, etc.

The present invention provides a battery or supercapacitor current collector which is prelithiated. The prelithiated current collector comprises: (a) an electrically conductive substrate having two opposed primary surfaces, and (b) a mixture layer of carbon (and / or other stabilizing element, such as B, Al, Ga, In, C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Te, or a combination thereof) and lithium or lithium alloy coated on at least one of the primary surfaces, wherein lithium element is present in an amount of 1% to 99% by weight of the mixture layer. This current collector serves as an effective and safe lithium source for a wide variety of electrochemical energy storage cells, including the rechargeable lithium cell (e.g. lithium-metal, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, lithium-air, lithium-graphene, lithium-carbon, and lithium-carbon nanotube cell) and the lithium ion based supercapacitor cell (e.g, symmetric ultracapacitor, asymmetric ultracapacitor, hybrid supercapacitor-battery, or lithium-ion capacitor).

A composite electrode is created by forming a thin conformal coating of mixed metal oxides on a highly porous carbon structure. The highly porous carbon structure performs a role in the synthesis of the mixed oxide coating and in providing a three-dimensional, electronically conductive substrate supporting the thin coating of mixed metal oxides. The metal oxide mixture shall include two or more metal oxides. The composite electrode, a process for producing said composite electrode, an electrochemical capacitor and an electrochemical secondary (rechargeable) battery using said composite electrode are disclosed.

An electrochemical energy storage device, lithium super-battery, comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a porous separator disposed between the two electrodes, and a lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with the two electrodes, wherein the positive electrode comprises a plurality of chemically functionalized nano graphene platelets (f-NGP) or exfoliated graphite having a functional group that reversibly reacts with a lithium atom or ion. In a preferred embodiment, a lithium super-battery having a f-NGP positive electrode and Li4Ti5O12 negative electrode exhibits a gravimetric energy ˜5 times higher than conventional supercapacitors and a power density ˜10 times higher than conventional lithium-ion batteries. This device has the best properties of both the lithium ion battery and the supercapacitor.

Disclosed herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also disclosed herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Also disclosed herein are methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and / or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and / or anolytes. Also disclosed herein are methods for preparing dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also disclosed herein are sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and / or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.

The present invention relates to a material for use as an electrode for electrochemical energy storage devices such as electrochemical capacitors (ECs) and secondary batteries, primary batteries, metal / air batteries, fuel cells, flow batteries and a method for producing the same. More specifically, this invention relates to an electrode material consisting of a functionalized porous carbon, a method for producing the same, and an energy storage device using said electrode materials.

An electrochemical energy storage device, lithium super-battery, comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a porous separator disposed between the two electrodes, and a lithium-containing electrolyte in physical contact with the two electrodes, wherein the positive electrode comprises a disordered carbon material having a functional group that reversibly reacts with a lithium atom or ion. The disordered carbon material is selected from a soft carbon, hard carbon, polymeric carbon or carbonized resin, meso-phase carbon, coke, carbonized pitch, carbon black, activated carbon, or partially graphitized carbon. In a preferred embodiment, a lithium super-battery having a functionalized disordered carbon cathode and a Li4Ti5O12 anode exhibits a gravimetric energy ˜5-10 times higher than those of conventional supercapacitors and a power density ˜10-30 times higher than those of conventional lithium-ion batteries. This device has the best properties of both the lithium ion battery and the supercapacitor.

The invention discloses a preparation method and application of a nitrogen-doped starch-based activated carbon microsphere material. The nitrogen-doped starch-based activated carbon microsphere material is prepared by taking starch as the carbon source and taking a nitrogen-containing compound as the nitrogen source through the steps of gelatinization, hydrothermal treatment, carbonization, activation and the like. The diameters of prepared carbon microspheres range from 0.5 micrometer to 10 micrometers, the particle size is controllable, the dispersity is good, the specific surface area ranges from 1,000 m<2> / g to 3,000 m<2> / g, and the nitrogen content ranges from 0.2% to 15%. The prepared material relates to the application fields of electrochemical energy storage, adsorption separation, catalyst carriers, drug carriers and the like and is particularly applicable to electrochemical energy storage. Green biomass is adopted as the carbon source, sources are wide, the price is low, and the preparation technology is simple, easy to control, environmentally friendly and suitable for large-scale production.

The present invention relates to primary and secondary electrochemical energy storage systems, particularly to such systems as battery cells, which use materials that take up and release ions as a means of storing and supplying electrical energy.

The invention relates to the field of chemical energy storage devices such as super capacitors, batteries and the like, and particularly discloses a composite material based on nanometer, a preparation method of the composite material and application in a flexible energy storage device, which solve the problem that common energy storage devices are difficult to be bent and deform. Nanometer active materials are compounded with flexible fibers, high-energy-storage characteristics of the nanometer active materials and excellent flexibility of flexible fiber materials are integrated, the quality percentage of the nanometer active materials ranges from 0.1% to 40%, the rest components of the composite material are the flexible fibers, the flexible nanometer composite material in a three-dimensional communication network structure is formed, furthermore, the composite material can be used as an electrode active material and a current collector simultaneously so as to be assembled to form the bendable flexible energy storage device, higher specific capacity can be realized under a bending condition and is equivalent to that when the flexible energy storage device is not bent, and the composite material can be expected to be applied to the field of flexible devices in the future.

The invention provides a preparation method of high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles and application of the high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles as a negative material of a lithium ion battery. The corresponding method comprises the following steps: slowly dropwise adding a preset quantity of zinc nitrate (Zn(NO3)) methanol solution into a methanol mixed solution which is prepared from a preset amount of 2-methylimidazole (C4H6N2) and a preset amount of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), magnetically stirring and standing for preset time, carrying out centrifugal separation to obtain ZIF-8(a complex formed by zinc and 2-methylimidazole) nanoparticles; and putting the obtained ZIF-8 nanoparticles in a high-temperature furnace and calcining at 600-1,000 DEG C for preset time in the nitrogen atmosphere to obtain the high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles. The preparation process of the high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles is simple, and the high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles are uniform in shape, relatively large in specific surface and high in content of nitrogen, and have great application potentials in aspects of lithium ion batteries, electrochemical energy storage, catalysis and the like. The preparation method of the high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles is simple and efficient, safe and liable to implement, short in synthesis cycle, is capable of preparing a large quantity of high-nitrogen-doped graphene nanoparticles and is expected to be popularized and industrially applied.