1524 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.

Thin-film micro-electrochemical energy storage cells (MEESC) such as microbatteries and double-layer capacitors (DLC) are provided. The MEESC comprises two thin layer electrodes, an intermediate thin layer of a solid electrolyte and optionally, a fourth thin current collector layer; said layers being deposited in sequence on a surface of a substrate. The MEESC is characterized in that the substrate is provided with a plurality of through cavities of arbitrary shape, with high aspect ratio. By using the substrate volume, an increase in the total electrode area per volume is accomplished.

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).

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.

Set forth 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 set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive 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 novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and / or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including 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, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and / or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.

A method for forming a battery from via thin-film deposition processes is disclosed. A mesoporous carbon material is deposited onto a surface of a conductive substrate that has high surface area, conductive micro-structures formed thereon. A porous, dielectric separator layer is then deposited on the layer of mesoporous carbon material to form a half cell of an energy storage device. The mesoporous carbon material is made up of CVD-deposited carbon fullerene “onions” and carbon nano-tubes, and has a high porosity capable of retaining lithium ions in concentrations useful for storing significant quantities of electrical energy. Embodiments of the invention further provide for the formation of an electrode having a high surface area conductive region that is useful in a battery structure. In one configuration the electrode has a high surface area conductive region comprising a porous dendritic structure that can be formed by electroplating, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, thermal spraying, and / or electroless plating techniques.

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.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an electrochemical store comprises a plurality of heat exchange units and a plurality of electrochemical storage cells arranged in an array, alongside one another, and between pairs of the heat exchange unit. The heat exchange units include heat exchange channels for flow of a temperature control fluid. A forward flow distribution channel is coupled to the heat exchange channels for ingress of the temperature control fluid and a return flow distribution channel is coupled to the heat exchange channels for egress of the temperature control fluid flow. Pursuant to a feature of the present invention, a pressure-tight and watertight battery box is arranged to receive and enclose the heat exchange units and the electrochemical storage cells, and the battery box is arranged and configured to mount a water outlet and venting device.

Set forth 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 set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive 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 novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and / or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including 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, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and / or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.

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.

The present invention is drawn to a high power electrochemical energy storage device, comprising at least one stackable, monolithic battery unit. The monolithic battery unit includes at least two electrochemical energy storage cells. The cells have a lithium ion insertion anode and a lithium ion insertion cathode, a bipolar current collector between cells and end plate current collectors at the opposing ends of each battery unit. A frame may be associated with the perimeter of the current collector. The current collector comprises a high-conductivity metal. The device also has the at least two storage cells substantially aligned adjacent one another, a separator material associated between the anode and the cathode within each cell; and an electrolyte within each cell.Additionally, the present invention is drawn to a device combining two or more of the monolithic units, either in series or in parallel or any combination thereof, so as to create a high power, high voltage energy storage device.

An electrochemical store is provided. The electrochemical store comprises a plurality of heat exchange units and a plurality of electrochemical storage cells arranged in an array, alongside one another, and between pairs of the heat exchange unit. The heat exchange units include heat exchange channels for the flow of a temperature control fluid. A forward flow distribution channel is coupled to the heat exchange channels for ingress of the temperature control fluid and a return flow distribution channel is coupled to the heat exchange channels for egress of the temperature control fluid flow. Pursuant to a feature of the present invention, the plurality of heat exchange units are coupled to one another to form a self-supporting electrochemical store unit suitable for insertion into a battery box as a unit.

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 present application is generally directed towards electrochemical energy storage devices. The devices comprise electrode material suspended in an appropriate electrolyte. Such devices are capable of achieving economical $ / kWh(cycle) values and will enable much higher power and cycle life than currently used devices.

The invention discloses a water system chargeable sodium-ion battery system. The system uses a concept of a 'rocking chair battery' of a lithium ion battery; and the entire battery system is formed by using sodium-based prussian blue matter as an embedded anode, titanium sodium phosphate as an embedded cathode, and sodium-contained inorganic salt solution as electrolyte. The system has the advantages of high discharge voltage, large specific capacity, good rate capability, long cycle life and the like, and further has the characteristics of green and environmental friendliness, and high security and no pollution. The system very hopefully becomes an electrochemical stored energy system with low price and environmental friendliness.

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 present invention relates to primary and secondary electrochemical energy storage systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to such systems as battery cells, especially battery cells utilizing metal fluorides with the presence of phosphates or fluorophosphates, which use materials that take up and release ions as a means of storing and supplying electrical energy.

The present invention is drawn to a high power electrochemical energy storage device in a bipolar configuration, comprising at least n stackable cells (20) in bipolar configuration wherein subgroups of m cells are electronically monitored (63). The storage cells (20) have a lithium ion insertion anode (24) and a lithium ion insertion cathode (26), a separator (36), an electrolyte system (36), and a leak-proof seal structure (51). A number of embodiments are disclosed, characterized by a favorable range of m values, in combination with the anode-to-cathode capacity ratio, electrolyte conductivity, and other battery key features, thereby providing a high power device providing long cycle life and excellent power performance over many thousand charge and discharge cycles while minimizing the cost for electronic monitoring. Additionally, the present invention is drawn to a device combining two or more groups of stackable cells in bipolar configuration, either in series or in parallel or any combination thereof, so as to create a high power, high voltage energy storage device.

A rechargeable energy storage device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment the energy storage device includes an air electrode providing an electrochemical process comprising reduction and evolution of oxygen and a capacitive electrode enables an electrode process consisting of non-faradic reactions based on ion absorption / desorption and / or faradic reactions. This rechargeable energy storage device is a hybrid system of fuel cells and ultracapacitors, pseudocapacitors, and / or secondary batteries.

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 discloses a preparation method of positive material for cobalt nitride / porous carbon plate / carbon cloth self-supported lithium-sulfur battery, belongs to the field of electrochemical energy storage of new energy material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: using a metal organic skeleton compound as a precursor, carbon cloth as a carrier, a metal organic skeleton compound vertically and uniformly grow on the flexible carbon cloth, performing treatment such as carbonization and nitridation to obtain cobalt nitride particles embedded nano carbon plate. The porousnano carbon plate is loaded on the fiber surface of the carbon cloth in a vertical growth manner and shows good electrochemical performance as the positive material of the lithium-sulfur battery. Thecompound self-supported lithium-sulfur battery positive material disclosed by the invention has developed pore structure, greatly shortens the diffusion distance of substances such as ions, electronsand electrolyte; the cobalt nitride particles with nano size adsorbs and catalytically converts the polysulfide, so the dissolution and shuttling of the polysulfide are effectively inhabited, the electric conductivity of the material is greatly improved by the carbon cloth and the application prospect is wide.

Provided is a new supercapacitor electrode material, comprising multiple interpenetrating networks of nanowires. More specifically, an interpenetrating network of metal oxide nanowires and an interpenetrating network of electrically conductive nanowires may form a composite film having a hierarchal porous structure. This hierarchically porous, interpenetrating network structure can provide the composite film with high capacitance, electrical conductivity and excellent rate performance. The present invention can be generalized towards other capacitor composites, opening a new avenue for a large spectrum of device applications.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a carbon nanometer tube-graphene composite material, and the method comprises the following steps of: directly mixing uniformly dispersed carbon nanometer tubes and a catalyst for graphene uniformly, causing the graphene to grow in situ in a carbon nanometer tube network by means of chemical vapor deposition, and removing the catalyst for the graphene after purification treatment to obtain the carbon nanometer tube-graphene composite material. The carbon nanometer tube-graphene composite material gives consideration to the characteristics of both the carbon nanometer tube and the graphene, and has significant application values in the aspects such as electrochemical energy storage, catalyst preparation, a transparent electroconductive film, enhancement, electric conduction, and an adsorption material as well as a desorption material, and in addition the preparation method is simple in operation, low in cost and easy for industrial production and is an important preparation method of a nanometer carbon material.

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.

An electrochemical energy store, including at least one electrochemical cell as well as at least one latent heat storage unit, which includes at least one phase change material. The at least one electrochemical cell is a lithium ion accumulator. The exemplary embodiments and / or exemplary methods of the present invention also includes the use of the electrochemical energy store in an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle. Furthermore, the exemplary embodiments and / or exemplary methods of the present invention relates to a method for temperature regulation of an electrochemical energy store.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a two-dimensional porous carbon skeletal nano-material. The method comprises the following steps: growing various metal organic frame nano-arrays on the surface of a two-dimensional layered nano-material in an orientated manner through room temperature solution synthesis by using the coordination effect of a metal and an organic ligand and the surface confinement effect of two-dimensional layered metal hydroxide with two-dimensional layered hydroxide as a template, and roasting the various metal organic frame nano-arrays in inert atmosphere to obtain the two-dimensional porous carbon skeletal nano-material with a regular structure. The method realizes orientated growth and artificial regulation of the metal organic frame material in the nanometer level for the first time, and the two-dimensional porous carbon skeletal nano-material prepared through roasting can be widely applied to the fields of electrocatalysis and electrochemical energy storage due to its specific surface area, unique tunnel structure and excellent electric conductivity.