Abstract:
Particular functional nanocomposite materials can be employed as electrodes and/or as electrodes in energy storage systems to improve performance. In one example, the nanocomposite material is characterized by nanoparticles having a high-capacity active material, a core particle having a comminution material, and a thin electronically conductive coating having an electronically conductive material. The nanoparticles are fixed between the core particle and the conductive coating. The comminution material has a Mohs hardness that is greater than that of the active material. The core particle has a diameter less than 5000 nm and the nanoparticles have diameters less than 500 nm.
Abstract:
Lithium ion batteries having an anode comprising at least one graphene layer in electrical communication with titania to form a nanocomposite material, a cathode comprising a lithium olivine structure, and an electrolyte. The graphene layer has a carbon to oxygen ratio of between 15 to 1 and 500 to 1 and a surface area of between 400 and 2630 m 2 / g. The nanocomposite material has a specific capacity at least twice that of a titania material without graphene material at a charge/discharge rate greater than about IOC. The olivine structure of the cathode of the lithium ion battery of the present invention is L1MPO 4 where M is selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Co, Ni and combinations thereof.
Abstract:
Compositions containing an optionally surface-functionalized mesoporous support and a biologically active agent, and pharmaceutical compositions of the same, are provided herein. Such compositions can be useful in the treatment of tumors, for example, by injection of the composition at a location near the site of the tumor.
Abstract:
Nanocomposite materials comprising a metal oxide bonded to at least one graphene material. The nanocomposite materials exhibit a specific capacity of at least twice that of the metal oxide material without the graphene at a charge/discharge rate greater than about 10C.
Abstract:
A highly effective and regenerable method, system and device that enables the desulfurization of warm fuel gases by passing these warm gasses over metal-based sorbents arranged in a mesoporous substrate. This technology will protect Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts and other sulfur sensitive catalysts, without drastic cooling of the fuel gases. This invention can be utilized in a process either alone or alongside other separation processes, and allows the total sulfur in such a gas to be reduced to less than 500 ppb and in some instances as low as 50 ppb.
Abstract:
Nanocomposite materials having at least two layers, each layer consisting of one metal oxide bonded to at least one graphene layer were developed. The nanocomposite materials will typically have many alternating layers of metal oxides and graphene layers, bonded in a sandwich type construction and will be incorporated into an electrochemical or energy storage device.
Abstract:
A highly effective and regenerable method, system and device that enables the desulfurization of warm fuel gases by passing these warm gasses over metal-based sorbents arranged in a mesoporous substrate. This technology will protect Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts and other sulfur sensitive catalysts, without drastic cooling of the fuel gases. This invention can be utilized in a process either alone or alongside other separation processes, and allows the total sulfur in such a gas to be reduced to less than 500 ppb and in some instances as low as 50 ppb.
Abstract:
The present invention is a microchannel mass exchanger (100) having a first plurality of inner thin sheets (106, 116, 200, 300) and a second plurality of outer thin sheets (110, 118, 204, 302, 504, 510). The inner thin sheets (106, 118, 200, 300) each have a solid margin (108) around a circumference, the solid margin (108) defining a slot (104, 508) through the inner thin sheet (106, 116, 200, 300) thickness. The outer thin sheets (110, 118, 204, 302, 504, 510) each have at least two header holes (112, 202) on opposite ends and when sandwiching an inner thin sheet (106, 116, 200, 300). The outer thin sheets (110, 118, 204, 302, 504, 510) further have a mass exchange medium (400, 500). The assembly forms a closed flow channel assembly wherein fluid enters through one of the header holes into the slot and exits through another of the header holes after contacting the mass exchange medium.
Abstract:
Improved lithium-sulfur energy storage systems can utilizes LixSy as a component in an electrode of the system. For example, the energy storage system can include a first electrode current collector, a second electrode current collector, and an ion-permeable separator separating the first and second electrode current collectors. A second electrode is arranged between the second electrode current collector and the separator. A first electrode is arranged between the first electrode current collector and the separator and comprises a first condensed-phase fluid comprising LixSy. The energy storage system can be arranged such that the first electrode functions as a positive or a negative electrode.
Abstract:
A light-emitting device, which improves the light output of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), includes at least one porous metal or metalloid oxide light extraction layer positioned between the substrate and the transparent conducting material layer in the OLED. The index of refraction of the light extraction layer and the light scattering may be tuned by changing the pore size, pore density, doping the metal oxide, adding an insulating, conducting or semiconducting component, or filling the pores, for example. A method for forming the light-emitting device includes forming at least one light extraction layer comprising a porous metal or metalloid oxide on a substrate, for example, using atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD), and subsequently, forming a transparent conducting material on the light extraction layer.