ELASTIC NETWORK POLYMER-ENCAPSULATED ANODE PARTICLES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING

    公开(公告)号:US20220199977A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17128798

    申请日:2020-12-21

    发明人: Hui He Bor Z. Jang

    IPC分类号: H01M4/36 H01M4/62 H01M10/0525

    摘要: A composite particulate for a lithium battery, wherein the composite particulate has a diameter from 10 nm to 50 μm and comprises one or more than one anode active material particles that are dispersed in a high-elasticity polymer matrix or encapsulated by a high-elasticity polymer shell, wherein said high-elasticity polymer matrix or shell has a recoverable elastic tensile strain no less than 5%, when measured without an additive or reinforcement dispersed therein, and a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10−8 S/cm at room temperature and wherein said high-elasticity polymer comprises a crosslinked polymer network of chains from carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), a substituted version thereof, or a derivative thereof.

    GRAPHENE-PROTECTED LITHIOPHILIC OR NATHIOPHILIC METAL ANODE FOR AN ALKALI METAL BATTERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220069313A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17005609

    申请日:2020-08-28

    摘要: Provided is an anode electrode (e.g. a layer or roll of a laminated structure) for a lithium battery or sodium battery, the anode electrode comprising: (a) an anode current collector having two primary surfaces; (b) multiple particles or coating of a lithium-attracting metal or sodium-attracting metal deposited on at least one of the two primary surfaces, wherein the lithium-attracting metal or sodium-attracting metal, having a diameter or thickness from 1 nm to 10 μm, is selected from Au, Ag, Mg, Zn, Ti, K, Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Sn, V, Cr, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof; and (c) a layer of graphene that covers and protects the multiple particles or coating of the metal. Also provided is a process for producing such an anode electrode and a battery cell.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING A NON-FLAMMABLE QUASI-SOLID ELECTROLYTE IN A LITHIUM BATTERY

    公开(公告)号:US20210344037A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US16861485

    申请日:2020-04-29

    摘要: Provided is apparatus for introducing a quasi-solid electrolyte into one or a plurality of lithium battery cells, the apparatus comprising: (a) a cell-holding device to hold one or a plurality of lithium battery cells and is in a working relation to a liquid electrolyte-filling device that injects a liquid electrolyte into the battery cells, wherein the liquid electrolyte comprises a lithium salt dissolved in a first liquid solvent having a first lithium salt concentration from 0.001 M to 3.0 M (mole/L); and (b) a solvent vapor-removing device in a working relation to the cell-holding device, wherein the vapor-removing device comprises a pumping device to move solvent vapors away from the battery cells so that the electrolyte has a final lithium salt concentration higher than the first concentration and higher than 2.0 M. Also provided is a method of operating the apparatus.

    Method of protecting anode of a lithium-sulfur battery

    公开(公告)号:US10978744B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-13

    申请号:US16126745

    申请日:2018-09-10

    摘要: The invention provides a method of improving the anode stability and cycle-life of an alkali metal-sulfur. The method comprises implementing two anode-protecting layers between an anode active material layer and an electrolyte or electrolyte/separator assembly. These two layers comprise (a) a first anode-protecting layer, in physical contact with the anode active material layer, having a thickness from 1 nm to 100 μm and comprising a thin layer of an electron-conducting material having a specific surface area greater than 50 m2/g; and (b) a second anode-protecting layer in physical contact with the first anode-protecting layer, having a thickness from 1 nm to 100 μm and comprising an elastomer having a fully recoverable tensile elastic strain from 2% to 1,000% and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−8 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm when measure at room temperature.

    ELASTIC POLYMER COMPOSITE BINDER FOR LITHIUM BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING

    公开(公告)号:US20210098778A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-01

    申请号:US17063666

    申请日:2020-10-05

    发明人: Hui He Bor Z. Jang

    摘要: Provided is highly elastic polymer composite binder composition for use in an anode or cathode of a lithium battery, the composition comprising a polymerizing or cross-linking liquid precursor and a 0.01%-50% by weight of a conductive reinforcement material dispersed in the liquid precursor, wherein the liquid precursor is capable of chemically bonding to an anode active material or cathode active material in the lithium battery upon completion of polymerization or cross-linking reactions to form a high-elasticity polymer and the resulting high-elasticity polymer has a recoverable tensile strain from 5% to 700% when measured without the conductive reinforcement dispersed in the polymer.