Acoustic Field Patterning of Battery Electrodes
Application of acoustic fields while making a battery electrode can rapidly transform a random slurry of battery materials into organized structures, regardless of what those exact materials may be. This change boosts both how much energy the battery can store and how fast it can charge, sidestepping a fundamental tradeoff in conventional battery manufacturing.
Expanded Hydrated Vanadate for Aqueous Zinc-ion Batteries
By using manganese cations to stabilize hydrated vanadium oxide cathodes, this technology enables a practical zinc-ion battery with the potential to exceed the capacity of today’s lithium-ion technology.
High Energy Li Batteries with Lean Lithium Metal Anodes and Methods for Prelithiation
This technology offers a rechargeable, full lithium metal battery cell with superior stability. This system is composed of lithium metal anode with a carbon-coated copper current collector that is prelithiated (deposited).
Printed Energy Harvesting Wearables
This technology utilizes composite materials as the fabric additive to enable the development of stretchable high-performance thermoelectric power generators. The durability of the wearable device is improved by undergoing 15,000 stretching cycles without mechanical or electrical failure.
Solid State Battery Cathodes
This technology offers mixed conductive interphases for solid state batteries without the issues of ceramic cathodes. The system is thin, percolative, and can be formed in-situ by a low-melting-point sintering additive with a ten-times and three-times area capacity improvement over the state-of-the-art cathodes.