530 results about "Silicon nanoparticle" patented technology

A method for the production of a robust, chemically stable, crystalline, passivated nanoparticle and composition containing the same, that emit light with high efficiencies and size-tunable and excitation energy tunable color. The methods include the thermal degradation of a precursor molecule in the presence of a capping agent at high temperature and elevated pressure. A particular composition prepared by the methods is a passivated silicon nanoparticle composition displaying discrete optical transitions.

A method for the production of a robust, chemically stable, crystalline, passivated nanoparticle and composition containing the same, that emit light with high efficiencies and size-tunable and excitation energy tunable color. The methods include the thermal degradation of a precursor molecule in the presence of a capping agent at high temperature and elevated pressure. A particular composition prepared by the methods is a passivated silicon nanoparticle composition displaying discrete optical transitions.

Silicon nanowires and silicon nanoparticle chains are formed by the activation of silicon monoxide in the vapor phase. The silicon monoxide source may be solid or gaseous, and the activation may be by thermal excitation, laser ablation, plasma or magnetron sputtering. The present invention produces large amounts of silicon nanowires without requiring the use of any catalysts that may cause contamination.

The present invention is for a porous silicon powder comprising silicon particles wherein the outermost layers of said particles are porous. The present invention is also directed to a method of making this porous silicon powder using a stain etch method. The present invention is also directed to a method of making silicon nanoparticles from the porous silicon powders using a process of ultrasonic agitation. The present invention also includes methods of processing these silicon nanoparticles for use in a variety of applications.

Silicon nanosponge particles prepared from a metallurgical grade silicon powder having an initial particle size ranging from about 1 micron to about 4 microns is presented. Each silicon nanosponge particle has a structure comprising a plurality of nanocrystals with pores disposed between the nanocrystals and throughout the entire nanosponge particle.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticle. The preparation method comprises the following steps: obtaining a polymer-silica composite nanoparticle having a core-shell structure by adopting spherical aggregations of an amphiphilic segmented copolymer in an aqueous solution and a cationic surfactant hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide as double templates and ethyl orthosilicate as a silicon source and by hydrolyzing the silicon source under an alkaline condition; and calcining to remove the templates to obtain the hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticle. The preparation method has the advantages of simplicity, mild reaction condition, and cheap experiment raw materials, and the prepared mesoporous silica nanoparticle has the advantages of high specific surface area, high pore volume, and good biological compatibility. The hollow structure enables the drug loading amount to be substantially improved, nanometer gold, nanometer silver, magnetic iron oxide particles, quantum dots, a contrast agent and the like to be loaded, so the hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticle can be used as a targeting drug release carrier, can be used for magnetic resonance image analysis, and has good application prospects in the fields of the diagnosis and the treatment of cancers.

A silicon solar cell having a silicon substrate includes p-type and n-type emitters on a surface of the substrate, the emitters being doped nano-particles of silicon. To reduce high interface recombination at the substrate surface, the nano-particle emitters are preferably formed over a thin interfacial tunnel oxide layer on the surface of the substrate.

The present invention relates to a doped multi-layer core-shell silicon-based composite material for a lithium ion battery, and a preparation method thereof. Other than being doped with a necessary lithium element, the material is also doped with at least a non-metallic element and a metal element; the material has a structure in which a silicon oxide particle doped with elements is taken as a core, and a multilayer composite film which is tightly coated on the surface of the core particle is taken as a shell; the core particle contains uniformly dispersed monoplasmatic silicon nanoparticles,the content of doping elements gradually decreases from the outside to the inside without a clear interface, and a dense lithium silicate compound is formed on the surface of the core particle by embedding and doping the lithium element; and the multilayer composite film is a carbon film layer and a doped composite film layer composed of the carbon film layer and other elemental components. The doped multi-layer core-shell silicon-based composite material provided by the present invention has a high capacity, good rate performance, high coulombic efficiency, good cycle performance, a low expansion rate, and other electrochemical characteristics when the material is used for the negative electrode of lithium ion battery.

The invention features biocompatible fluorescent nanoparticle and their use in in vivo imaging methods.

A novel top-down procedure for synthesis of stable passivated nanoparticles uses a one-step mechanochemical process to form and passivate the nanoparticles. High-energy ball milling (HEBM) can advantageously be used to mechanically reduce the size of material to nanoparticles. When the reduction of size occurs in a reactive medium, the passivation of the nanoparticles occurs as the nanoparticles are formed. This results in stable passivated silicon nanoparticles. This procedure can be used, for example in the synthesis of stable alkyl- or alkenyl-passivated silicon and germanium nanoparticles. The covalent bonds between the silicon or germanium and the carbon in the reactive medium create very stable nanoparticles.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a silicon / graphene laminar composite material for lithium ion battery cathode. The composite material adopts a laminar sandwich structure, silicon nano-particles are dispersed on each lamina of the grapheme, the laminas of the grapheme are separated from one another by the silicon nano-particles and the edges of the laminas are in lapped joint so as to constitute a laminar conductive network structure. The preparation method thereof comprises the steps of: formulating anhydrous silicon tetrachloride, surface active agent, sodium naphthalene and graphite oxide to tetrahydrofuran solution, adding the tetrahydrofuran solution into a reactor for reaction in vacuum at the temperature ranging from 380 to 400 DEG C, filtering the reactant to result in the product, and then washing, drying and heating the product to obtain the silicon / grapheme composite material. The preparation method of the invention has the advantages of simple preparation process and great easiness for industrial production; and the silicon / graphene laminar composite material prepared according to the method includes excellent conductivity, power performance, electrochemical activity and cycle stability, and is particularly suitable for manufacturing lithium ion battery cathode.

A silicon nanoparticle transistor and transistor memory device. The transistor of the invention has silicon nanoparticles, dimensioned on the order of 1 nm, in a gate area of a field effect transistor. The resulting transistor is a transistor in which single electron flow controls operation of the transistor. Room temperature operation is possible with the novel transistor structure by radiation assistance, with radiation being directed toward the silicon nanoparticles to create necessary holes in the quantum structure for the flow of an electron. The transistor of the invention also forms the basis for a memory device. The device is a flash memory device which will store electrical charge instead of magnetic effects.

A negative active material having controlled particle size distribution of silicon nanoparticles in a silicon-based alloy, a lithium battery including the negative active material, and a method of manufacturing the negative active material are disclosed. The negative active material may improve capacity and lifespan characteristics by inhibiting (or reducing) volumetric expansion of the silicon-based alloy. The negative active material may include a silicon-based alloy including: a silicon alloy-based matrix; and silicon nanoparticles distributed in the silicon alloy-based matrix, wherein a particle size distribution of the silicon nanoparticles satisfies D10≧10 nm and D90≦75 nm.

Nanostructured anodes for high capacity rechargeable batteries are provided according to various aspects of the disclosure. The nanostructure anodes may comprise silicon nanoparticles for the active material of the anodes to increase the storage capacity of the batteries. The silicon nanoparticles are able to move relative to one another to accommodate volume expansion during lithium intercalation, and therefore mitigate active material degradation due to volume expansion. The anodes may also comprise elastomeric binders that bind the silicon nanoparticles together and prevent capacity loss due to separation and electrical isolation of the silicon nanoparticles.

A method for the production of a robust, chemically stable, crystalline, passivated nanoparticle and composition containing the same, that emit light with high efficiencies and size-tunable and excitation energy tunable color. The methods include the thermal degradation of a precursor molecule in the presence of a capping agent at high temperature and elevated pressure. A particular composition prepared by the methods is a passivated silicon nanoparticle composition displaying discrete optical transitions.

The invention relates to a method for preparing environment-responsive mesoporous silicon nanoparticles. The mesoporous silicon nanoparticles with the particle size of 20 to 1,000nm, the pore size of 2 to 50nm, the specific surface area of 500 to 1,500m<2> / g and a controlled structure are prepared by a template extraction method and subjected to surface functionalization by a self-assembly technology. A medicine sustained-release system prepared by the method is high in biocompatibility and medicine loading rate, can be released intelligently and controllably and has good application prospects in fields of growth factor and gene release, enzyme immobilization, cancer treatment and the like in tissue engineering, the preparation method is simple, reaction conditions are mild, and experiment raw materials are low in cost.

The present invention is a negative electrode material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, comprising at least: particles wherein silicon nanoparticles are dispersed in silicon oxide (silicon oxide particles); and a metal oxide coating formed on a surface of the silicon oxide particles. As a result, there is provided a negative electrode material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries that enables the production of a negative electrode suitable for lithium-ion secondary batteries and the like that provides improved safety and cycle performance over conventional negative electrode materials.

The invention provides a method for preparing a silicon-carbon compound from silicon-containing biomass as a raw material. The method comprises the following steps: performing acid boiling treatment on the silicon-containing biomass so as to remove inorganic salt ion impurities, washing, drying, grinding into powder, carbonizing in inert atmosphere so as to obtain a composite product of silicon dioxide and carbon, uniformly mixing the carbonized product, magnesium powder and molten salts, and putting into a tubular furnace to react in inert atmosphere, thereby obtaining a porous silicon-carbon composite material that porous silicon nanoparticles are uniformly distributed in carbon. The method is simple and feasible in process and rich and cheap in raw material, the reaction temperature is controlled as heat is absorbed when the added molten salts are molten, the structure that silicon dioxide is naturally embedded into organisms in original silicon-containing biomass is well maintained in the obtained silicon-carbon compound, and moreover, the obtained silicon nanoparticles are uniform in particle size distribution and can be applied to the field of lithium ion battery cathode materials.

A one-dimensional super capacitor thread has thin conductive wire electrode. An active layer of silicon nanoparticles and polyaniline surrounds the electrode. An electrolyte layer surrounds the active layer. The electrolyte layer can be a layer of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). A super capacitor can be formed with two or more of the threads, such as in a twisted pair configuration. The dimensions of the super capacitor can approximate standard threads used in clothing, for example.

The invention discloses a pomegranate-like structured composite material preparation method which comprises the following steps: S1, taking a polyacrylonitrile solution, adding silica nanoparticles, and fully dispersing; S2, adding deionized water after stirring for emulsification to obtain a mud like precursor; S3, heating the mud like precursor obtained in the S2, and annealing to obtain a solid composite; and S4, grinding the solid composite obtained in the S3 into micron particles, adding a hydrogen fluoride solution for corrosion for a certain period of time, washing hydrogen fluoride, and drying to obtain a pomegranate-like structured composite material. According to the method, polyacrylonitrile is used for coating the silica particle surface, the polyacrylonitrile is emulsified when meeting water, so that the coated silicon particles are agglomerated, the coated silicon particles are carbonized and ground for formation of the pomegranate shaped structured silicon carbon composite material, HF is used for direct corrosion of the silicon nanoparticles in the material for preparation of the hollow pomegranate-like structured composite material, and detailed structure characterization and electrochemical performance testing of the material show that the material is good in performances.

A method for the production of a robust, chemically stable, crystalline, passivated nanoparticle and composition containing the same, that emit light with high efficiencies and size-tunable and excitation energy tunable color. The methods include the thermal degradation of a precursor molecule in the presence of a capping agent at high temperature and elevated pressure. A particular composition prepared by the methods is a passivated silicon nanoparticle composition displaying discrete optical transitions.

A novel top-down procedure for synthesis of stable passivated nanoparticles uses a one-step mechanochemical process to form and passivate the nanoparticles. High-energy ball milling (HEBM) can advantageously be used to mechanically reduce the size of material to nanoparticles. When the reduction of size occurs in a reactive medium, the passivation of the nanoparticles occurs as the nanoparticles are formed. This results in stable passivated silicon nanoparticles. This procedure can be used, for example in the synthesis of stable alkyl- or alkenyl-passivated silicon and germanium nanoparticles. The covalent bonds between the silicon or germanium and the carbon in the reactive medium create very stable nanoparticles.

The invention relates to a blending modified hollow polysulfone fiber film which comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 3-40 percent of polysulfone, 0.5-20 percent of porogen, 50-90 percent of organic solvent and 0.5-20 percent of inorganic nano particles, wherein the inorganic nano particles are one or the mixture of more than two of silicon oxide nano particles, titanium oxide nano particles, silicon carbide nano particles and gamma-phase aluminium oxide nano particles; the viscosity-average molecular weight of the polysulfone is 40,000-200,000; the organic solvent is one of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, dimethyl acetamide or dimethyl sulfoxide; and the porogen is one or a mixture of any two of polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol. The invention improves the surface property, the hydrophilic property and the mechanical strength of the film through modifying the hollow polysulfone fiber film, has simple film preparation process, and can realize industrial mass production.

The invention discloses a lithium ion secondary battery, an anode material for the same and a preparation method of the anode material. The anode material is made of composite particles comprising conductive metal particles and silicon nanoparticles which can be dispersed in silicon oxide, wherein the sizes of each silicon nanoparticle and each conductive metal particle are respectively 1-100nm, and the mole ratio of oxygen to silicon in the anode material is 1.0<O / Si<2. The anode material is prepared through the steps: with silicon-contained oxides as raw materials, sufficiently mixing the silicon-contained oxides, graphite and asphalt, adding a conductive metal salt, carrying out high-energy ball milling, and then, carrying out high-temperature thermal treatment. By using the anode material, the lithium ion secondary battery with high first circulated charging / discharging efficiency and capacity and good circulation performance can be manufactured.

A nanocomposite can include a polyolefin composition having at least one polyolefin. The polyolefin composition can have a multimodal molecular weight distribution, such as a bimodal molecular weight distribution. The nanocomposite can also include at least 5% by weight of nanoparticles, relative to a total weight of the nanocomposite. The nanoparticles can be carbon nanoparticles, silicon nanoparticles, or SiC nanoparticles. A nanocomposite masterbatch can be prepared by melt blending the polyolefin composition with the nanoparticles. A polyolefin resin can be prepared by blending the nanocomposite with a polyolefin. Formed articles can include the polyolefin resin.

The invention discloses a silicon / silicon oxycarbide / carbon anode material and a preparation method and an application thereof. In the silicon / silicon oxycarbide / carbon anode material, ultra-small silicon-oxygen-carbon nanoparticles are evenly dispersed into a carbon substrate to be used as a buffer substrate while silicon nanoparticles are evenly inlaid into the carbon / silicon-oxygen-carbon buffer substrate. The method comprises the following steps: with a thermosetting resin monomer as a solvent system instead of a traditional solvent, dispersing silicon nano powder into the solvent evenly; obtaining a solid block of a silicon / polysiloxane / carbon precursor composite material by solidifying vinylite and a silane coupling agent containing double bonds; and carrying out high-temperature calcination after crushing, and carrying out ball-milling to obtain the silicon / silicon oxycarbide / carbon anode material. According to the method, a traditional organic solvent is not used; solvent post-treatment is avoided; the silane coupling agent is directly polymerized with resin; and carbon and silicon-oxygen-carbon are formed in situ through calcination polymer pyrolysis. With ceramic (silicon-oxygen-carbon) and carbon as the buffer substrates, the stress caused by silicon volume expansion is absorbed; and bad consequences caused by silicon volume expansion are eliminated and reduced.