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The present invention discloses a process for depositing a carbon containing silicon oxide film, or a carbon containing silicon nitride film having enhanced etch resistance. The process comprises using a silicon containing precursor, a carbon containing precursor and a chemical modifier. The present invention also discloses a process for depositing a silicon oxide film, or silicon nitride film having enhanced etch resistance comprising using an organosilane precursor and a chemical modifier.

An Si/C composite includes carbon (C) dispersed in porous silicon (Si) particles. The Si/C composite may be used to form an anode active material to provide a lithium battery having a high capacity and excellent capacity retention.

A silicon-silicon oxide-lithium composite comprises a silicon-silicon oxide composite having such a structure that silicon grains having a size of 0.5-50 nm are dispersed in silicon oxide, the silicon-silicon oxide composite being doped with lithium. Using the silicon-silicon oxide-lithium composite as a negative electrode material, a lithium ion secondary cell having a high initial efficiency and improved cycle performance can be constructed.

This invention relates to a substrate and the application. In particular, this invention discloses a substrate which has at least one contact structure at least on one side and at least one contact structure at least on one surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a thermal insulation material comprising at least two materials selecting from a thermal energy reflecting material, a homogeneous foam material, a heterogeneous foam material, a skin material, a skeleton structured material, an electromagnetic wave shielding material. The substrate may be used to construct various articles with different features of energy saving, decoration and protection as well as simple installation for various applications.

Methods and systems for selectively depositing material, such as doped semiconductor material, are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a substrate, comprising a first area comprising a first material and a second area comprising a second material, selectively depositing a first doped semiconductor layer overlying the first material relative to the second material and selectively depositing a second doped semiconductor layer overlying the first doped semiconductor layer relative to the second material.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a carbon material with rich mesopores and macropores. Inorganic nano-particles are used as pore-forming template agent to be uniformly distributed in a carbon-contained organic precursor and then the carbon-contained organic precursor carries out high-temperature carbonization, template agent washing-out and drying to obtain a porous carbon material. The carbon material prepared by the method has the specific surface area of 50-1,900 m/g and a pore diameter mainly between 2-900 nm, can be conveniently adjusted by the size control of the selected nano-particles, removes a template without using high corrosive HF and has the advantages of simple method, convenient operation, free pore diameter adjustment and control in a mesopore and macropore range, and the like. The carbon material has a wide application prospect in fields of electrochemical energy accumulation, macromolecular adsorption, catalyst carriers, composite materials, and the like.

A method for forming a silicon oxide film on a step formed on a substrate includes: (a) designing a topology of a final silicon oxide film by preselecting a target portion of an initial silicon nitride film to be selectively deposited or removed or reformed with reference to a non-target portion of the initial silicon nitride film resulting in the final silicon oxide film; and (b) forming the initial silicon nitride film and the final silicon oxide film on the surfaces of the step according to the topology designed in process (a), wherein the initial silicon nitride film is deposited by ALD using a silicon-containing precursor containing halogen, and the initial silicon nitride film is converted to the final silicon oxide film by oxidizing the initial silicon nitride film without further depositing a film wherein a Si—N bond in the initial silicon nitride film is converted to a Si—O bond.

The present invention advantageously provides for, in different embodiments, low-cost deposition techniques to form high-quality, dense, well-adhering Group IBIIIAVIA compound thin films with macro-scale as well as micro-scale compositional uniformities. It also provides methods to monolithically integrate solar cells made on such compound thin films to form modules. In one embodiment, there is provided a method of growing a Group IBIIIAVIA semiconductor layer on a base, and includes the steps of depositing on the base a nucleation and/or a seed layer and electroplating over the nucleation and/or the seed layer a precursor film comprising a Group IB material and at least one Group IIIA material, and reacting the electroplated precursor film with a Group VIA material. Other embodiments are also described.

Methods of forming structures including a photoresist underlayer and structures including the photoresist underlayer are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming the photoresist underlayer that includes metal. Techniques for treating a surface of the photoresist underlayer and/or depositing an additional layer overlying the photoresist underlayer are also disclosed.

The invention prepares a nanometer rare earth inorganic substance/ rubber composite with high wear resistant and excellent dynamic property. The invention adopts a mechanical blending method to prepare the nanometer rare earth inorganic substance and rubber composite. After the nanometer rare earth inorganic substance and the rubber are composited, higher modulus can be provided, the mechanical property of the rubber composite is improved, the abrasion stripes are blocked up to achieve the aim of dispersing stress through the high strength of the nanometer rare earth inorganic substance so as to improve wear-resisting property, and the internal friction of the composite is improved by utilizing the specific characteristic of smooth surface of the rare earth material so as to achieve the aim of reducing internal friction and resistance to rolling. According to the material prepared by the invention, the modulus can be improved, the mechanical property is improved, the abrasion is greatly reduced simultaneously, the internal friction and the resistance to rolling are reduced, and the composite can be widely applied to materials such as tyres, conveyer belts, sealing elements, piston rings, soles and the like.

In accordance with an aspect of the invention, implantable or insertable medical devices are provided in which a porous layer is disposed over a therapeutic-agent-containing region. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, medical devices are fabricated by a method in which a porous layer is deposited over a therapeutic-agent-containing region using a field-injection-based electrospray technique.

The invention provides a porous silicon carbon composite microsphere with a yolk-eggshell structure and a preparation method therefor, and belongs to the lithium ion battery electrode material technology field. The porous silicon carbon composite microsphere takes a porous submicron silicon sphere mpSi as a core with a diameter of 400-900 nm, and takes porous carbon mpC as a shell with a thickness of 10-60 nm. The inner diameter of a cavity Void is 800-1400 nm. The composition of the silicon carbon composite microsphere can be described as mpSi@Void@mpC. In addition, In the preparation method, cheap silicon dioxide is taken as a silicon source, silicon dioxide is conversed into silicon materials with electrochemical activities through a magnesiothermic reduction method. The size of gaps can be regulated and controlled through control of etching conditions. The preparation method is advantaged in that the material structure can be controlled, the cost is low, the process is simple, and the composite microsphere is convenient for large-scale production.

The invention discloses an electrode material of composite lithium titanate and its preparation method, which is secondary particles with spherical or similar spherical shape and porous nanometer channels, which is made from lithium titanate particles, nano-carbon coated materials and doped modifier. The preparation method includes: milling the inorganic lithium salt, titanium dioxide, nano-carbon coated material or doped modifier, scattering them into the organic solvent for further drying, processing heat treatment, and cooling. Comparing with the existing technologies, this electrode material has the high-rate performance, highly reversible electrochemical capacity, and smaller surface area to enhance its first Coulomb efficiency and cycle stability, applying to rechargeable and once-use lithium-ion battery.

The invention discloses a superfine WC-Co cemented carbide containing rare-earth elements and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of cemented carbide. In the cemented carbide, the weight of WC rigid phase accounts for 85-94% of that of the cemented carbide, the weight of Co binder phase accounts for 5-14% of that of the cemented carbide, the weight of grain growth inhibitor accounts for 0.3-2.0% of that of the cemented carbide, and the weight of the thulium in the rare earth addition accounts for 0.2-1.2% of that of the Co binder phase. The method comprises the following steps: weighing various powder stocks, ball-milling, drying and pelletizing to form a compound; and suppressing and shaping the compound, sintering and cooling to obtain the cemented carbide. The adding mode of nano rare earth oxide or Co-RE composite powder can be implemented easily and conveniently, and the rare earth is diffusely and evenly distributed, thereby facilitating to perform physo-chemical reactions; and the cemented carbide has the advantages of low production cost, stable and enhanced performance and easy implementation, production and application.

The invention discloses a graphene-based barrier composite material, which has high barrier and mechanical performance and is prepared by using grapheme sheets which are two-dimension nano materials as an intensifier and uniformly dispersing the grapheme sheets in a polyolefin polymer by chemical crosslinking. The preparation method of the barrier composite material comprises: 1, functionally modifying the surface of the graphene oxide by using coupling agent to graft active functional groups on the surface of the graphene oxide, and reducing the modified graphene oxide into grapheme; and 2, uniformly dispersing the modified graphene into solution of the polyolefin to perform crosslinking under the action of an initiator to obtain the nano composite material. In the invention, the raw material is low in cost and readily available; the operation is easy, the process is simple, the repeatability is high, the graphene can well disperse in the polyolefin, and the prepared graphene-based barrier composite material has high polar and nonpolar solvent barrier performance and is obviously improved in tensile strength and fracture toughness.

The invention relates to a lithium ion battery silicon-based composite anode material, a preparation method of the lithium ion battery silicon-based composite anode material, and a battery. The lithium ion battery silicon-based composite anode material adopts an embedded composite core-shell structure, a core has a structure formed by embedding nano silicon particles into a gap of an inner layer of hollowed graphite, and a shell is made from a non-graphite carbon material. According to the silicon-based composite anode material, mechanical grinding, mechanical fusing, isotropic compression processing and carbon coating technologies are combined, so that the nano silicon particles can be successfully embedded into the inner layer of the graphite and the surfaces of graphite particles are uniformly coated; the high-performance silicon-based composite anode material is obtained and is excellent in cycle performance (the 300-times cycle capacity retention ratio is more than 90%) and high in first efficiency (more than 90%); in addition, the silicon-based composite anode material is high in specific energy and compaction density, and can meet the requirements of a high-power density lithium ion battery; the preparation process is simple, the raw material cost is low, and the environment is protected.

The invention provides a silicon-carbon composite anode material, which comprises a nuclear shell structure and a support substrate, wherein particle size of the silicon-carbon composite anode material is 1-200 micrometers, and porous carbon serving as the support substrate is obtained through decomposition of biomass materials. The invention further provides a preparing method of the silicon-carbon composite anode material, which includes the following steps: 1 reaming the biomass materials in physical activation or chemical activation mode to prepare the porous carbon, or preparing small molecular organics serving as a precursor of the porous carbon in hydrolyzing mode; 2 mixing silica particles and the obtained porous carbon or the precursor of the porous carbon in solution and performing ultrasonic treatment; 3 evaporating the solution mixture to dry so as to obtain solid-state powder; and 4 drying the solid-state powder, and performing thermal treatment, crushing and sieving on the solid-state powder to obtain the silicon-carbon composite anode material. The silicon-carbon composite anode material and the preparing method thereof are simple in process, short in flow path, easy to operate and low in cost, and lithium ion batteries manufactured by the silicon-carbon composite anode material are suitable for various mobile electronic equipment or devices driven by mobile energy.

The nano fibre protective material is made into the form of a laminar structure, its middle layer is made of high-molecular nano fibre membrane material, the diameter of the nano fibre is 10 nano-3000 nano, and its external layer is respectively one layer or multilayer natural fibre or synthetic fibre or blended fabric on non-woven fabric, and the diameter of fibre is 1 micrometer-100 micrometers. Its preparation method includes the following steps: dissolving or dispersing one or several kinds of high-molecular materials in solvent to obtain transparent solution or mixture, dispersing additive into the above-mentioned solution or melting one or several kinds of high-molecular materials to obtain electric spinning material, then adding said electric spinning material into one or several storage tanks.

A method for manufacturing a composite piezoelectric substrate is capable of forming an ultra-thin piezoelectric film having a uniform thickness by efficiently using a piezoelectric material. A piezoelectric substrate and a supporting substrate are prepared, ions are implanted from a surface of the piezoelectric substrate to form a defective layer in a region at a predetermined depth from the surface of the piezoelectric substrate, impurities that are adhered to at least one of the surface of the piezoelectric substrate in which the defective layer is formed and a surface of the supporting substrate are removed to directly expose the constituent atoms of the surfaces and to activate the surfaces, the supporting substrate is bonded to the surface of the piezoelectric substrate to form a bonded substrate body, the bonded substrate body is separated at the defective layer formed in the piezoelectric substrate so that a separation layer between the surface of the piezoelectric substrate and the defective layer is separated from the piezoelectric substrate and bonded to the supporting substrate to form a composite piezoelectric substrate, and the surface of the separation layer of the composite piezoelectric substrate is smoothed.

The invention discloses a preparation method for a fiber reinforced carbon-silicon carbide-zirconium carbide-based (C/C-SiC-ZrC) composite material. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (a) evenly dispersing ZrC nanopowder in absolute ethyl alcohol; (b) mixing phenolic resin and ZrC dispersion liquid to form slurry; (c) immersing a two-dimensional carbon fiber sheet into the slurry for dipping and drying, then carrying out continuous superposition paving on the two-dimensional carbon fiber sheet, and carrying out curing and post-curing treatment to prepare a fiber-reinforced sintered body; (d) cracking the fiber-reinforced sintered body to obtain a porous C/C prefabricate; (e) placing silicon powder into a graphite crucible, burying the porous C/C prefabricate into the silicon powder, heating to 1,500-1,650 DEG C, and preserving heat for preset time so as to carry out liquid silicon permeation. The method can be used for improving the high-temperature oxidizing property and ablation property of the carbon fiber reinforced ceramic (C/C-SiC) composite material.

Disclosed in the invention are a silicon-carbon composite anode material for lithium ion batteries and a preparation method thereof The material consists of a porous silicon substrate and a carbon coating layer. The preparation method of the material comprises preparing a porous silicon substrate and a carbon coating layer. The silicon-carbon composite anode material for lithium ion batteries has the advantages of high reversible capacity, good cycle performance and good rate performance. The material respectively shows reversible capacities of 1,556 mAh, 1,290 mAh, 877 mAh and 474 mAh/g at 0.2 C, 1 C, 4 C and 15 C rates; the specific capacity remains above 1,500 mAh after 40 cycles at the rate of 0.2 C and the reversible capacity retention rate is up to 90 percent.

The invention relates to a carbon fiber reinforced boron carbide composite material and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: preparing a carbon fiber preform by adopting a needling, puncturing or three-dimensional weaving process; and depositing boron carbide matrix in the porous carbon fiber preform by osmosis to form the compact carbon fiber reinforced boron carbide composite material. Aiming at a certain specific application environment, a boron carbide coat can be deposited on the surface of a sample by adopting the same chemical vapor osmosis process. The carbon fiber reinforced boron carbide-based composite material manufactured by the method has the characteristics of good mechanical property, toughness superior to that of the traditional sintered boron carbide, compact structure, light weight, abrasion resistance and high hardness, and is suitable to be applied to a high-temperature light structural component.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a textured structure of a crystalline silicon solar cell. The method includes the steps of (1) cleaning and texture preparation, (2) soaking a silicon wafer in a solution containing metal ions to enable the surface of the silicon wafer to be coated with a layer of metal nanometer particles, (3) corroding the surface of the silicon wafer to form a nanometer-grade texture, (4) cleaning to remove the metal particles, (5) carrying out microstructure amendment etching in second chemical corrosive liquid, and (6) cleaning and spin-drying. As is proved by a test, the size of the textured structure is between 100nm-500nm; the textured structure is of a nanopore shape with a large hole diameter and a small depth, or a nanometer pyramid with edge angles, or of a nanometer pit shape structure with an edge angle nanometer cone body or with an edge angle; and compared with a nanometer-micrometer composite textured structure disclosed in CN102610692A, the textured structure enables conversion efficiency of a cell piece to be improved by about 0.2%-0.5%, and an unexpected effect is achieved.

This invention discloses a carbon crystal material and a method for preparing plates with the crystals, in which, the carbon crystal material is prepared by taking carbon fibers as the raw material to be grinded and modified, the plate is a panel heater prepared by mixing carbon crystal material with paper pulp and adding viscosity aid to be heated and pressed and is harmonic with concrete, which can be used as a heat collecting product.

Methods of improving the uniformity and adhesion of low resistivity tungsten films are provided. Low resistivity tungsten films are formed by exposing the tungsten nucleation layer to a reducing agent in a series of pulses before depositing the tungsten bulk layer. According to various embodiments, the methods involve reducing agent pulses with different flow rates, different pulse times and different interval times.

The invention discloses a nano silver bacterial fibre preparation method comprising: adding fibre into AgNO3 solution, and adsorbing the mixture; and carrying out reduction reaction on the adsorbed fibre to obtain the nano silver bacterial fibre. The invention has simple production step, and the obtained product has the advantages of even silver nanoparticle distribution and long-lasting fibre antibacterial property and can be washed several times. The invention is suitable for natural fibre and synthetic fibre and can be used for health-care underwear, medicinal gauze, clothes, decorative textiles and the like.

A preparation method of a high power capacity lithium ion battery cathode material uses natural spherical graphite to serve as raw materials, uses concentrated sulfuric acid to serve as an inserting layer agent, uses potassium permanganate to serve as an oxidizing agent, conducts expansion treatment at high temperature to obtain micro-expanded graphite, then enables the micro-expanded graphite in different proportions to be mixed with nanometer ganister sand, conducts ultrasonic dispersion, suction filtration and dying to obtain the micro-expanded graphite with the nanometer ganister sand inserted in layers, enables the micro-expanded graphite to be mixed and coated with carbon source carbon source according to certain proportion, and finally conducts carburizing sintering under inert gas shielding to prepare completely coated silicon carbon composite cathode material with sufficient obligated obligate inside. Electrochemistry shows that the silicon carbon composite material prepared by the preparation method has high specific capacity and cycling stability and is the ideal high power capacity lithium ion battery cathode material.

The invention discloses an electrostatic spinning preparation method of ceramic nanometer composite fibers, comprising the following concrete steps of: firstly, according to volume percentage, weighing 3-10 percent of ceramic nanometer particles with the partilce size of 10-300 nm, 3-20 percent of ceramic precursor, 5-30 percent of spinnable polymer and 40-89 percent of solvent with the total volume of 100 percent; secondly, adding the spinnable polymer into the solvent, heating in water bath and magnetically stirring; thirdly, adding the ceramic precursor into the spinnable polymer solution obtained in the second step, heating in water bath, magnetically stirring and ageing; fourthly, adding the ceramic nanometer particles into the ceramic precursor spinnable solution obtained in the third step, heating at constant temperature in the water bath and forming a spinning solution by carrying out ultrasonic dispersion and constant temperature swelling; fifthly, preparing composite nanometer fibers by the spinning solution according to an electrostatic spinning technology; and sixthly, obtaining the ceramic nanometer composite fibers by sintering the composite nanometer fibers. In the method, raw materials have wide selection conditions and wide optional range.

The invention discloses a porous silicon/carbon composite material and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the fields of electrochemistry and new energy materials. The method comprises the following steps of: preparing porous silicon dioxide by using ethyl orthosilicate, silicon tetrachloride, methyl silicone oil and sodium silicide as raw materials, reducing the porous silicon dioxide into porous silicon, coating the porous silicon by adopting an organic carbon source, and performing thermal treatment under an inert atmosphere to prepare the porous silicon/carbon composite material. The material can be directly used as the lithium ion battery cathode material, the first discharge specific capacity of the material can reach 1,245mAh/g, the specific capacity can also reach 1,230mAh/g after 30 cycles, and the material has excellent charge/discharge performance.

Silica coated carbon blacks are disclosed and can be prepared by coating a fine dispersion of carbon black, such as a carbon black having an attached organic group(s). Compositions and articles of manufacture, including elastomeric compositions, containing such carbon black are also disclosed.