698 results about "Micron size" patented technology

The invention is related to a cathode material comprising particles having a lithium metal phosphate core and a pyrolytic carbon deposit, said particles having a synthetic multimodal particle size distribution comprising at least one fraction of micron size particles and one fraction of submicron size particles, said lithium metal phosphate having formula LiMPO₄ wherein M is at least Fe or Mn.

Said material is prepared by method comprising the steps of providing starting micron sized particles and starting submicron sized particles of at least one lithium metal phosphate or of precursors of a lithium metal phosphate; mixing by mechanical means said starting particles; making a pyrolytic carbon deposit on the lithium metal phosphate starting particles before or after the mixing step, and on their metal precursor before or after mixing the particles; optionally adding carbon black, graphite powder or fibers to the said lithium metal phosphate particles before the mechanical mixing.

The invention provides homogeneous small spherical particles of low molecular weight organic molecules, said small spherical particles having a uniform shape, a narrow size distribution and average diameter of 0.01-200 μm. The invention further provides methods of preparation and methods of use of the small spherical particles. These small spherical particles are suitable for applications that require delivery of micron-size or nanosized particles with uniform size and good aerodynamic or flow characteristics. Pulmonary, intravenous, and other means of administration are among the delivery routes that may benefit from these small spherical particles.

A soft solder flowing into the recesses of a semiconductor thin film LED provides: (a) increased bonding strength and better mechanical durability, (b) improved heat dissipation, (c) enhanced light extraction when the LED film is bonded to a new carrier. Annealing localized islands of absorbing metal creates an ohmic contact. Those isolated islands are inter-connected by a layer of a highly reflective metal. This design enables a significant absorption reduction within the LED device and leads to a significant improvement of light extraction. Additionally, the light extraction efficiency of an isotropic light emitting device is improved via surface shaping of the device by a 2D-array of micro-lenses and photonic band gap structure. For manufacturability purpose the making of micron-size lenses of the surface of the chip may preferably be performed as a final step, preferably with optical lithography.

A process of forming a transistor with three vertical gate electrodes including a high-k gate dielectric and the resulting transistor. By forming such a transistor it is possible to maintain an acceptable aspect ratio as MOSFET structures are scaled down to sub-micron sizes. The transistor gate electrodes can be formed of different materials so that the workfunctions of the three electrodes can be tailored. The three electrodes are positioned over a single channel and operate as a single gate having outer and inner gate regions.

An electro-optic modulator is formed on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) rib waveguide. An optical field in the modulator is confined by using an electrically modulated microcavity. The microcavity has reflectors on each side. In one embodiment, a planar Fabry-Perot microcavity is used with deep Si/SiO₂ Bragg reflectors. Carriers may be laterally confined in the microcavity region by employing deep etched lateral trenches. The refractive index of the microcavity is varied by using the free-carrier dispersion effect produced by a p-i-n diode formed about the microcavity. In one embodiment, the modulator confines both optical field and charge carriers in a micron-size region.

In one aspect of the invention, a method of synthesizing a lithium metal phosphate composite usable for a lithium secondary battery includes the steps of forming a nanometer-size precursor comprising lithium source and metal phosphate nanoparticles having each nanoparticle at least partially coated a layer of carbon precursor, spray drying the nanometer-size precursor at a first desired temperature to form micron-size particles packed with the lithium metal phosphate precursor nanoparticles, and sintering the micron-size particles at a second desired temperature under an inert and/or reduction atmosphere to form a micron-size lithium metal phosphate composite.

[Problems]To provide a membrane material that realizes effective and efficient separation of a target substance of micron size, being easy to handle and that can be worked into various forms; a blood filtration membrane and a leukocyte removing filter unit that realizes a substantial reduction of filter material volume while retaining high capability of removing leukocytes, thereby reducing the loss of hemocyte suspension; and a cell culturing diaphragm suitable for co-culturing and a relevant method of cell culturing. [Means for Solving Problems]There is provided a composite porous membrane comprising a porous membrane comprised of an organic polymeric compound, and a supporting porous membrane adjacent to the porous membrane, characterized in that the organic polymeric compound constituting the porous membrane penetrates in at least part of a surface adjacent to porous membrane of the supporting porous membrane, the porous membrane having specified opening ratio, average pore diameter, standard deviation of pore diameter, ratio of through pore, average membrane thickness, standard deviation of membrane thickness and internal structure, and that the supporting porous membrane has communicating pores of 0.5D μm or greater average pore diameter. Further, there are provided a blood filtration membrane comprising the composite porous membrane; a leukocyte removing filter unit comprising the composite porous membrane as a second filter; and, utilizing the composite porous membrane, a cell culturing diaphragm and method of cell culturing.

The present invention relates to nanometer and micron polymer material, and is especially one kind of nanometer and micron water soluble microgel oil-displacing material with wide size range and its reverse emulsion polymerizing preparation process. In the reverse emulsion polymerization process, water soluble monomer and cross-linking agent react to form pre-crosslinked spheroid water soluble microgel polymer with certain elasticity. As one kind of oil-displacing material, the nanometer and micron water soluble microgel material is opaque reverse emulsion, and has excellent flowability and stability, viscosity at 25 deg.c lower than 400 mPa.s, no obvious delamination. When the material and water soluble surfactant are injected simultaneously into water, the material will disperse fast and swelled to form microgel grains of 100 nm to 20 micron size.

The invention discloses high-conductivity silver paste for a positive electrode of a crystalline silicon solar cell. The silver paste comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 75-90% of Ag powder, 2-10% of glass powder and 5-20% of organic carrier, wherein the glass powder comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 30-75% of PbO, 7-30% of SiO2, 2-30% of Bi2O3, 1-5% of Al2O3, 1-5% of V2O5, 1-10% of ZnO, 1-5% of Ag2O and 1-8% of MgO. The silver paste has the following beneficial effects: the micron-sized silver powder is adopted to prepare the silver paste, the prepared silver paste has good rheological behavior and thixotropy, a single wafer consumes less silver paste, and the compactness of the positive grid line is improved, thus improving the conductivity; and the glass powder with low-melting erosion property is adopted and can effectively and moderately erode the antireflective film, thus reducing the contact resistance of the crystalline silicon solar cell and improving the conversion efficiency.

The integral engineering rack of interface osteochondro tissue with bionic interface includes from the top to the bottom one cartilage layer, one calcified layer and one bone layer below cartilage connected organically. The cartilage layer consists of type II collagen and chitosan connected in covalent bond; the calcified layer consists of type II collagen and hydroxyapatite connected in covalent bond; the bone layer below cartilage consists of type I collagen and hydroxyapatite connected in covalent bond; and each of the cartilage layer and the bone layer below cartilage has at least one pore of 100-500 micron size. The integral engineering rack of the present invention has excellent biocompatibility, excellent degradability, sufficient mechanical first and bionic interface function.

A method of building a three dimensional (3D) structure includes micro-dispensing a layer comprising a material using a syringe-based micro-dispensing tool, curing the layer, and repeating the steps of micro-dispensing and curing a plurality of times in order to build the three-dimensional structure. The material may be loaded with nano to micron sized particles, tubes, or strings.

A method of synthesizing complex, multi-part pharmaceuticals, chemical substances and engineered polymers through the process of electrospraying, electrospinning or extrusion utilizing tiny glass fiber known as “Holey” Fibers. The “holey” fibers have a unique property associated with them as they contain various combinations of micron sized holes running the length of the glass fiber. The holes can be made homogenous, i.e. all the same diameter, or of varying dimensions in concentric rings, enabling several chemicals to be combined together at synthesis. The advantage of using a glass holey fiber is that it is made from a chemically inert glass, that will not affect to chemicals involved with the exception of certain fluorine substances.

The present invention relates to composite polymer material, and is especially stretching material with negative Poisson's ratio and its preparation process and use. The foamed material obtained through secondary foaming process or screw extrusion foaming process has microscopic double fan-shaped composite structure with middle layer of regular honeycomb structure, outer layer of ordered gradually lengthened arrangement and micropores of 80-150 micron size. The foamed material has the mechanical performance of perpendicularly expanding while being stretched and perpendicularly contracting while being extruded. By means of special preparation process, the foamed material may have raised compression resistance, shock absorption, rebound elasticity and other mechanical performance. The unique mechanical performance makes the material possess application in composite board, waste water treatment, deep water job and other fields.

Silicon alloys have the highest specific capacity when used as anode material for lithium-ion batteries, however, the drastic volume change inherent in their use causes formidable challenges toward achieving stable cycling performance. Large quantities of binders and conductive additives are typically necessary to maintain good cell performance. In one embodiment of the invention, only 2% (by weight) functional conductive polymer binder without any conductive additives was successfully used with a micron-size silicon monoxide (SiO) anode material, demonstrating stable and high gravimetric capacity (>1000 mAh/g) for ˜500 cycles and more than 90% capacity retention. Prelithiation of this anode using stabilized lithium metal powder (SLMP®) improves the first cycle Coulombic efficiency of a SiO/NMC full cell from ˜48% to ˜90%. This combination enables good capacity retention of more than 80% after 100 cycles at C/3 in a lithium-ion full cell.

A polymeric material such as PDMS is molded into an electrode structure containing a micron-size aperture for receiving and forming a giga-ohm seal with a biological membrane One end of a tube is filled with uncured polymeric material and pressed against a support surface to prevent drainage. A conventional micropipette having a size suitable for sliding through the tube is introduced, tip first, into the tube and is allowed to fall through the polymeric material and rest against the support surface. The assembly is heated to cure the polymer and the micropipette is removed from the tube, thereby leaving a polymeric plug at the end of the tube with an aperture suitable in shape and size for patch-clamp giga-ohm seal electrode applications. A multi-well tray with a polymeric electrode plug in each well is constructed using the same approach.

The invention provides a measuring method for reservoir pore structure of compact oil and gas reservoir. The measuring method comprises steps: core characteristics of a compact oil and gas reservoir sample are obtained; the scattering length density of the compact oil and gas reservoir sample is calculated through the core characteristics of the sample; the scattering intensity of the sample is calculated through scattering length density; the pore superficial area of the sample is calculated through the scattering intensity; the total pore volume of the sample is calculated through the pore superficial area. The reservoir pore structure of the compact oil and gas reservoir is measured through SANS/USANS, The trends of the result and the pore size distribution curves of the N2 adsorption experiment are consistent. Low pressure adsorption experiments show that the content of micropores is low, and show existence of micron-size pores, and the pores are not communicated. The measuring precision is high, and the measuring accuracy is high.

Hilbert phase microscopy (HPM) as an optical technique for measuring high transverse resolution quantitative phase images associated with optically transparent objects. Due to its single-shot nature, HPM is suitable for investigating rapid phenomena that take place in transparent structures such as biological cells. A preferred embodiment is used for measuring biological systems including measurements on red blood cells, while its ability to quantify dynamic processes on the millisecond scale, for example, can be illustrated with measurements on evaporating micron-size water droplets.

The invention discloses a construction method of titanium surface micron-size picture based on super hydrophilic/super hydrophobic peculiarity, which comprises the following steps: pre-processing the surface of base material; allocating electrolytic solution; controlling voltage and temperature; proceeding electro chemical anodic oxidation; getting titanium oxide nanometer structure array film layer; proceeding heat treatment; getting example; soaking in fluorine silicane methanol solution at 10-240 min; getting out; drying at 120-160 deg.c; getting super hydrophobic TiO2 nanometer structure array film layer; covering photomask; irradiating with ultraviolet light; getting the final picture.

The invention discloses an acidic texturing solution for etching a solar cell silicon wafer, a texturing method, a solar cell silicon wafer and a manufacturing method of the solar cell silicon wafer. The acidic texturing solution comprises a copper ion source for providing 0.1-25mmol/L copper ions, a fluoride ion source for providing 0.5-10mol/L fluoride ions, and a 0.1-1.0mol/L oxidant for oxidizing copper into the copper ions. The surface of the silicon wafer is preferably textured by virtue of the acidic texturing solution and thus an independent, complete and compactly arranged micron-size inverted pyramid-shaped structure is formed on the surface of the silicon wafer at a relatively low temperature and a relatively short time. By adopting the inverted pyramid-shaped structure, the reflectivity of an incident light on the textured surface is reduced to 5%-15% such that the efficiency of the solar cell is improved. The inverted pyramid-shaped structure disclosed by the invention is not limited to the preparation of an HIT and a conventional diffusion cell and can be also applied in other solar cells and optoelectronic devices using a silicon substrate.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a granular reinforced damping porous nickel-titanium memorial alloy based composite material. The method comprises: after evenly mixing silicon granules or aluminum oxide granules of nickel-titanium metal powder and a controlled material according to a certain proportion by adopting a step powder-sintering method, pressing the granules into a raw blank, and then integrally sintering the pressed granules once by adopting a step heating mode to prepare the composite material, wherein the silicon granules or the aluminum oxide granules account for 5 to 15 percent of weight of the raw blank. Through introducing the porous granular controlled material with low density and micron size into the nickel-titanium memorial alloy, the method quantitatively controls damping and mechanical properties of the nickel-titanium alloy, and finally obtains the novel high-damping porous nickel-titanium alloy based composite material. The composite porous nickel-titanium memorial alloy still has shape memory effect and hyperelastic deformation capability, and has better strength and damping capability compared with the common porous nickel-titanium alloy; and the method has the advantages of good adaptability, simple preparation process and low cost, and can be used for manufacturing composite damping materials, damping structures and devices.

The invention relates to a method for preparing nano celluloses through high-pressure homogenizing and low-temperature cooling. The method comprises the following steps: dispersing the raw fibers in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution with the mass fraction of 10-20%, maintaining the raw fibers in the aqueous solution for 2-6 hours at 20-60 DEG C, adding a dispersing agent after dilution, centrifugal separation and cyclic dialysis, utilizing a high-pressure homogenizer for high-pressure homogenizing, simultaneously carrying out low-temperature cooling in the process of high-pressure homogenizingto obtain nano cellulose colloids and obtaining the nano celluloses through centrifugal separation and freeze drying, wherein the pressure is 1000-1200bar; and the cycle index is 4-16. The diameter and length of the obtained nano celluloses are respectively about 10-30nm and 300nm. The method has the beneficial effect of solving the following problems: the existing nano celluloses prepared by utilizing the homogenizers have wide and nonuniform diameter distribution; the fibers are interwoven in micron size; and the pressure and the temperature are raised in the process of high-pressure homogenizing.