903 results about "Longest cycle" patented technology

A nano graphene-enhanced particulate for use as a lithium-ion battery anode active material, wherein the particulate is formed of a single sheet of graphene or a plurality of graphene sheets and a plurality of fine anode active material particles with a size smaller than 10 μm. The graphene sheets and the particles are mutually bonded or agglomerated into the particulate with at least a graphene sheet embracing the anode active material particles. The amount of graphene is at least 0.01% by weight and the amount of the anode active material is at least 0.1% by weight, all based on the total weight of the particulate. A lithium-ion battery having an anode containing these graphene-enhanced particulates exhibits a stable charge and discharge cycling response, a high specific capacity per unit mass, a high first-cycle efficiency, a high capacity per electrode volume, and a long cycle life.

The present invention provides an exfoliated graphite-based hybrid material composition for use as an electrode, particularly as an anode of a lithium ion battery. The composition comprises: (a) micron- or nanometer-scaled particles or coating which are capable of absorbing and desorbing alkali or alkaline metal ions (particularly, lithium ions); and (b) exfoliated graphite flakes that are substantially interconnected to form a porous, conductive graphite network comprising pores, wherein at least one of the particles or coating resides in a pore of the network or attached to a flake of the network and the exfoliated graphite amount is in the range of 5% to 90% by weight and the amount of particles or coating is in the range of 95% to 10% by weight. Also provided is a lithium secondary battery comprising such a negative electrode (anode). The battery exhibits an exceptional specific capacity, excellent reversible capacity, and long cycle life.

A flexible, asymmetric electrochemical cell comprising: (A) A sheet of graphene paper as first electrode comprising nano graphene platelets having a platelet thickness less than 1 nm, wherein the first electrode has electrolyte-accessible pores; (B) A thin-film or paper-like first separator and electrolyte; and (C) A thin-film or paper-like second electrode which is different in composition than the first electrode; wherein the separator is sandwiched between the first and second electrode to form a flexible laminate configuration. The asymmetric supercapacitor cells with different NGP-based electrodes exhibit an exceptionally high capacitance, specific energy, and stable and long cycle life.

This invention provides a hybrid nano-filament composition for use as an electrochemical cell electrode. The composition comprises: (a) an aggregate of nanometer-scaled, electrically conductive filaments that are substantially interconnected, intersected, or percolated to form a porous, electrically conductive filament network comprising substantially interconnected pores, wherein the filaments have an elongate dimension and a first transverse dimension with the first transverse dimension being less than 500 nm (preferably less than 100 nm) and an aspect ratio of the elongate dimension to the first transverse dimension greater than 10; and (b) micron- or nanometer-scaled coating that is deposited on a surface of the filaments, wherein the coating comprises an anode active material capable of absorbing and desorbing lithium ions and the coating has a thickness less than 20 μm (preferably less than 1 μm). Also provided is a lithium ion battery comprising such an electrode as an anode. The battery exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacity, an excellent reversible capacity, and a long cycle life.

The invention relates to methods for improving the DRX operation of a UE by introducing an additional DRX wake-up cycle, which runs in parallel to the short and/or long DRX cycle. The DRX wake-up cycle defines time intervals after which the UE starts monitoring the PDCCH for a wake-up duration of time; the UE does not perform any other operation during the wake-up duration apart from monitoring the PDCCH. The time intervals of the wake-up cycle between the wake-up durations are preferably shorter than the one of the DRX long cycle, and may have the same or a shorter length than the ones of the DRX short cycle. The wake-up duration may be as long as the on-duration of the DRX short/long cycle, or may be preferably much shorter, such as only one or a few subframes.

An apparatus and method for receiving an MBMS (Multimedia Multicast/Broadcast Service) notification indicator is disclosed to discontinuously receive an MBMS notification indicator in a mobile communication system. A mobile terminal receives and stores a terminal-specific DRX (Discontinuous Reception) cycle length and the longest DRX cycle length broadcasted in a cell. The mobile terminal discontinuously receives a notification indicator for a specific MBMS during a terminal-specific DRX cycle length of the longest DRX cycle length by using the stored terminal-specific DRX cycle length and the longest DRX cycle length used in a cell.

A lithium secondary battery comprising a cathode, an anode, and a separator-electrolyte assembly or electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises: (a) an integrated nano-structure of electrically conductive nanometer-scaled filaments that are interconnected to form a porous network of electron-conducting paths comprising interconnected pores, wherein the filaments have a transverse dimension less than 500 nm; and (b) a foil of lithium or lithium alloy as an anode active material. The battery exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacity, an excellent reversible capacity, and a long cycle life.

The invention provides a multi-element composite nano-material for a super capacitor, and a preparation method of the nano-material. The nano-material comprises a carbon material, metal oxide and conducting polymer, and components of the nano-material can be two or more than two materials. By the aid of the characteristics such as fine electrical conductivity, long cycle life and high specific surface area of the carbon material, high pseudo-capacitance of the metal oxide and low internal resistance, low cost and high operating voltage of the conducting polymer, different types of electrode materials generate synergistic effects, advantages are mutually combined, shortcomings are mutually weakened, the energy storage characteristics of an electric double-layer capacitor and a pseudo-capacitor are simultaneously made full use of, a composite electrode material with high power density, fine circulating stability and higher energy density is prepared, and the multi-element composite nano-material is excellent in comprehensive performance when used for an electrode of the super capacitor, has the advantages of simple preparation process, short cycle, low cost and the like, and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

Batteries with high energy and high capacity are described that have a long cycle life upon cycling at a moderate discharge rate. Specifically, the batteries may have a room temperature fifth cycle discharge specific energy of at least about 175 Wh/kg discharged at a C/3 discharge rate from 4.2V to 2.5V. Additionally, the batteries can maintain at least about 70% discharge capacity at 1000 cycles relative to the fifth cycle, with the battery being discharged from 4.2V to 2.5V at a C/2 rate from the fifth cycle through the 1000th cycle. In some embodiment, the positive electrode of the battery comprises a lithium intercalation composition with optional metal fluoride coating. Stabilizing additive maybe added to the electrolyte of the battery to further improve the battery performance. The batteries are particularly suitable for use in electric vehicles.

Disclosed is an electrode material comprising a phthalocyanine compound encapsulated by a protective material, preferably in a core-shell structure with a phthalocyanine compound core and a protective material shell. Also disclosed is a rechargeable lithium cell comprising: (a) an anode; (b) a cathode comprising an encapsulated or protected phthalocyanine compound as a cathode active material; and (c) a porous separator disposed between the anode and the cathode and/or an electrolyte in ionic contact with the anode and the cathode. This secondary cell exhibits a long cycle life, the best cathode specific capacity, and best cell-level specific energy of all rechargeable lithium-ion cells ever reported.

A rechargeable lithium cell comprising: (a) an anode comprising a prelithiated lithium storage material or a combination of a lithium storage material and a lithium ion source; (b) a hybrid cathode active material composed of a meso-porous structure of a carbon, graphite, metal, or conductive polymer and a phthalocyanine compound, wherein the meso-porous structure is in an amount of from 1% to 99% by weight based on the total weight of the meso-porous structure and the phthalocyanine combined, and wherein the meso-porous structure has a pore with a size from 2 nm to 50 nm to accommodate phthalocyanine compound therein; and (c) an electrolyte or electrolyte/separator assembly. This secondary cell exhibits a long cycle life and the best cathode specific capacity and best cell-level specific energy of all rechargeable lithium-ion cells ever reported.

If a monitor measurement cycle is set as a long cycle, promotion in a short cycle cannot be performed; and even if the number of I/Os is very large in response to fluctuations of the number of I/Os in several minutes to several hours of normal work, pages will be promoted after waiting for several weeks. As a result, I/Os which could have normally accepted by an upper tier will be accepted by a lower tier, which results in a problem of worsening the performance efficiency. A monitoring system capable of preventing demotion due to temporary reduction of the number of I/Os for specific pages from a viewpoint of a long cycle and enabling prompt promotion in response to an increase of the number of U/Os for 3

the specific pages is realized.

A load index value defined from a viewpoint of a long cycle and a load index value defined from a viewpoint of a short cycle are updated based on the number of I/Os which is counted cyclically for each storage area. Promotion and demotion are implemented based on a value(s) calculated from these load index values.

Embodiments presented herein provide a new approach for high-performance lithium-sulfur battery by using novel carbon-metal oxide-sulfur composites. The composites may be prepared by encapsulating sulfur particles in bifunctional carbon-supported metal oxide or other porous carbon-metal oxide composites. In this way, the porous carbon-metal oxide composite confines sulfur particles within its tunnels and maintain the electrical contact during cycling. Furthermore, the uniformly embedded metal oxides in the structure strongly adsorb polysulfide intermediates, avoid dissolution loss of sulfur, and ensure high coulombic efficiency as well as a long cycle life.

A rechargeable lithium cell comprising: (a) an anode comprising an anode active material; (b) a cathode comprising a hybrid cathode active material composed of an electrically conductive substrate and a phthalocyanine compound chemically bonded to or immobilized by the conductive substrate, wherein the phthalocyanine compound is in an amount of from 1% to 99% by weight based on the total weight of the conductive substrate and the phthalocyanine compound combined; and (c) electrolyte or a combination of electrolyte and a porous separator, wherein the separator is disposed between the anode and the cathode and the electrolyte is in ionic contact with the anode and the cathode. This secondary cell exhibits a long cycle life, the best cathode specific capacity, and best cell-level specific energy of all rechargeable lithium-ion cells ever reported.

A rechargeable lithium-sulfur cell comprising an anode, a separator and/or electrolyte, a sulfur cathode, an optional anode current collector, and an optional cathode current collector, wherein the cathode comprises (a) exfoliated graphite worms that are interconnected to form a porous, conductive graphite flake network comprising pores having a size smaller than 100 nm; and (b) nano-scaled powder or coating of sulfur, sulfur compound, or lithium polysulfide disposed in the pores or coated on graphite flake surfaces wherein the powder or coating has a dimension less than 100 nm. The exfoliated graphite worm amount is in the range of 1% to 90% by weight and the amount of powder or coating is in the range of 99% to 10% by weight based on the total weight of exfoliated graphite worms and sulfur (sulfur compound or lithium polysulfide) combined. The cell exhibits an exceptionally high specific energy and a long cycle life.

The present invention discloses an inorganic-organic nano composite solid electrolyte membrane and a preparation method and application thereof. The composite solid electrolyte is a novel inorganic-organic nanocomposite combining the respective advantages of inorganic ceramic solid electrolyte and organic polymer electrolyte and is composed of a negative electrode protective layer, a support layerand a positive electrode interface layer. The support layer plays a supporting role, and the main component of the negative electrode protective layer is the inorganic solid electrolyte with good mechanical properties, which can effectively inhibit the growth of lithium dendrite; and the positive electrode interface layer is mainly composed of organic polymer electrolyte with good flexibility, ensures good contact with active materials and provides a continuous ion transport channel. In the present invention, the composite solid electrolyte with good interface compatibility is prepared by coating on both sides of the support layer, and the process is simple and efficient. The composite solid electrolyte can effectively inhibit dendritic crystal and reduces interface resistance so that a solid lithium metal battery has higher energy density and longer cycle life.

The invention provides a formula and preparation method of a high energy storage lead-acid battery lead paste and relates to the technical field of lead-acid batteries. The formula of a positive plate lead paste comprises the following raw materials: 7-8.5% of dilute sulphuric acid, 10.2-10.8% of deionized water, 0.2-0.4% of colloidal graphite, 0.8-2% of red powder, 0.06-0.09% of stannous sulfate, 0.05-0.08% of polyester staple fiber and the balance of lead powder; the formula of a negative plate lead paste comprises the following raw materials: 6.8-7.5% of dilute sulphuric acid, 9.8-10.8% of deionized water, 0.2-0.4% of acetylene black, 0.2-0.3% of humic acid, 0.8-1.0% of barium sulfate, 0.08-0.1% of barium stearate, 0.15-0.18% of sodium lignosulphonate, 0.06-0.09% of polyester staple fiber and the balance of lead powder. The battery prepared by the lead paste has the advantages of high initial capacity and long cycle life; and the overdischarge resistance and charge acceptance of the battery are higher than the standard requirements.

The invention relates to a high-capacity graphite material and a preparation method as well as application thereof. The high-capacity graphite material comprises artificial graphite and natural graphite, wherein the mass ratio of artificial graphite to natural graphite is 20:1 to 1:1. According to the preparation method, the artificial graphite and the natural graphite are uniformly mixed according to a certain mass ratio, and then surface modification is carried out on the mixture. The prepared graphite material has the advantages of high discharge capacity, high first efficiency, long cycle life, low cost and the like; the discharge capacity of the high-capacity graphite material can reach up to more than 350mAh/g (even reach up to more than 368mAh/g); a half-cell of the high-capacity graphite material charges and discharges at the 1C multiple power; after the high-capacity graphite material cycles for 100 times, the capacity retention ratio of the high-capacity graphite material is still more than 90% (even reaches up to more than 96.3%); the first efficiency reaches up to more than 95.5%; and the manufacturing cost is reduced by about 1-10%. The high-capacity graphite material provided by the invention not only can meet the requirement of a lithium ion power battery for the high multiplying power charge-discharge of the material, but also reduces the manufacturing cost of the cathode material of the lithium ion battery.

The present invention discloses a pig SLA-1 gene knockout method using CRISPR-Cas9 specificity and sgRNA used for specific targeting SLA-1 gene. The target sequence of the sgRNA used for specific targeting SLA-1 gene in the SLA-1 gene complies with a 5'-N (20) NGG-3' sequence arrangement rule, wherein N (20) represents 20 consecutive basic groups, wherein each N represents a A or T or C or G; the target sequence in the SLA-1 gene is located at the four exon coding regions of the N-terminal of the SLA-1 gene or the junction of adjacent introns; and the target sequence in the SLA-1 gene is unique. The sgRNA used in the pig SLA-1 gene knockout method using CRISPR-Cas9 specificity, may fast, accurately, efficiently, and specifically knockout pig SLA-1 gene, effectively solve long cycle and high cost in construction of SLA-1 gene knockout pig.

Provided is a process for producing an alkali metal battery, comprising: (A) Preparing an anode material suspension and a cathode active material suspension; (B) Assembling a porous cell framework composed of a first conductive foam structure, a second conductive foam structure, and a porous separator disposed between said first and said second conductive foam structure; and (C) Injecting the anode suspension into pores of the first conductive foam structure to form an anode and injecting cathode suspension into pores of the second conductive foam structure to form a cathode, wherein the anode active material has a material mass loading no less than 20 mg/cm² or the cathode active material has a material mass loading no less than 15 mg/cm² for an organic or polymer material or no less than 40 mg/cm² for an inorganic material. The resulting batteries exhibit exceptional gravimetric and volumetric energy densities and long cycle life.

The present invention discloses a smart power distribution system and a method to progressively dispatch the power using the same. The method is characterized in that it is based on data collection and data analysis to develop a dispatch scheme. The method steps are all automatic and self-adaptive. The method can be executed in an unattended manner to automatically correlate real time data vs. historical data, planning data vs. operation data. Based on a long cycle periodical variation and short-term random variations in load, and taking into account the temporary load power supply and maintenance needs, a multi-stage progressive multiple time scales optimal dispatching method is developed, including the distributed power, micro-grids, energy storage devices, electric vehicles charge-discharge facility and other elements of the Intelligent power distribution systems, to achieve coordinated operation of the network, power, load resources to ensure a continuous safe and reliable smart power distribution system operated at high quality and efficiency.

The invention belongs to the technical field of batteries, and particularly relates to an aqueous lithium (sodium) ion battery mixed negative material. The mixed negative material is prepared by mixing three materials including ion embedded type compounds, conductive materials, organic compounds capable of reversibly storing alkali metal or alkaline earth metal ions or high-molecular polymers in a certain mass proportion; a mixing way comprises the steps of in-situ growth and direct mechanical mixing of all the composition parts. An aqueous lithium (sodium) ion battery assembled by using the mixed electrode material as a negative electrode has the characteristics of long cycle life, high power, high security, low cost and no environment pollution, and is particularly suitable for power batteries used in short-distance electromobiles and energy storage batteries used in smart power grids.

A battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an aqueous electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode and including a cation A. At least one of the cathode and the anode includes an electrode material having an open framework crystal structure into which the cation A is reversibly inserted during operation of the battery. The battery has a reference specific capacity when cycled at a reference rate, and at least 75% of the reference specific capacity is retained when the battery is cycled at 10 times the reference rate.