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An Approach to Make Macroporous Metal Sheets as Current Collectors for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Jun 23 , 2021
The freestanding, laminated film was sintered in air by increasing the temperature of the furnace at a slow rate to 1000°C, holding at1000°C for 1 h, and then decreasing the temperature at a rate of5°C/min to room temperature. This high temperature treatment was done to completely burn all carbon and organic materials to generate a porous structure and to simultaneously allow CuO particles to conn...
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Effects of the Mixing of an Active Material and a Conductive Additive on the Electric Double Layer Capacitor Performance in Organic Electrolyte
Jun 25 , 2021
2. Experimental Procedure Activated carbon(MSP-20) for an active electrode material was provided from Kansai Coke & Chemicals Co.. Super-P(M.M.M. Carbon Co., Belgium) and polyvinylidene fluoride(Sigma-Aldrich) were employed as a conductive additive and a binder, respectively. The preparation procedure for a coin-type EDLC cell was briefly presented in Fig. 1. Active materia...
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Monolithic Nanoporous Zn Anode for Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries
Jun 28 , 2021
Congcheng Wang,# Guoyin Zhu,# Pan Liu, and Qing Chen* METHODS Battery Assembly and Testing. Ni−Zn batteries were assembled into coin-type cells (CR2032) with a Zn anode, either the compressed nanoporous Zn (∼0.36 cm2 in size) or a pasted electrode comprising Zn powder (90 wt %, Aldrich), polyvinylidene fluoride (Arkema Kynar), and a NiOOH cathode (650 mAh, GP Batteries). Tin foil was used as the a...
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Reinvestigation on the state-of-the-art nonaqueous carbonate electrolytes for 5 V Li-ion battery applications
Jul 02 , 2021
2. Experimental 2.1. Electrolyte and electrode preparation Battery-grade ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate(PC), dimethyl carbonate (DMC), ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC),diethyl carbonate (DEC), and lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6)were purchased from Novolyte Technologies. Lithium foil (0.75 mmthick) was purchased from Alfa Aesar. All chemicals and materials were used as received. Elect...
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EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSIS OF EVAPORATION IN ELECTRODE PROCESSING FOR ENERGY STORAGE
Jul 05 , 2021
Experimental Equipment Electrode processing can be broken up into five main sections: dry powder mixing, wet mixing, substrate preparation, film application, and drying. The equipment and preparation stations utilized in this study are presented herein. A visual overview of the ETSL experimental facility can be seen in Figure 2. The electrode substrate and slurry preparation station is shown in Fi...
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LiPF3(CF2CF3)(3): A salt for rechargeable lithium ion batteries
Jul 07 , 2021
J. S. Gnanaraj,a M. D. Levi,a,* Y. Gofer,a D. Aurbach,a,*,z and M. Schmidtb aDepartment of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel bMerck KGaA, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany Experimental All the work was performed under a highly pure argon atmosphere in standard vacuum glove box from Xiamen TMAX Battery Equipments Limited. The anodes were composed of synthetic graphite (KS-6) from Tim...
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Lithium Ion Conducting Polymerized Ionic Liquid Pentablock Terpolymers as Solid-State Electrolytes
Jul 12 , 2021
Abstract In this study, a lithium ion conducting polymerized ionic liquid pentablock terpolymer (PILPTP) was investigated as a battery electrolyte (Xiamen Tmaxcn Inc.) for lithium ion batteries. The ABCBA pentablock terpolymer, poly(tbS-b-EP-b-MS-b-EP-b-tbS) (tbS = tert-butyl-styrene; EP = ethylene-r-propylene; MS = 4-methylstyrene), was brominated and quaternized to covalently attach two dif...
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Silicon nanopillar anodes for lithium-ion batteries using nanoimprint lithography with flexible molds
Jul 14 , 2021
Eric Mills, John Cannarella, Qi Zhang, Shoham Bhadra, Craig B. Arnold, and Stephen Y. Chou II. EXPERIMENT B. Assembly of anodes The cell preparation and assembly process has four key steps: (1) transfer to an Ar-filled glovebox, (2) Li-disk preparation, (3) separator preparation, and (4) final assembly. In step (1), after etching, the anodes were moved into an Ar-filled glove...
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Electrochemical Signatures of Interface-Dominated Behavior in the Testing of Calcium Foil Anodes
Jul 16 , 2021
Aaron M. Melemed and Betar M. Gallantz Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States of America Electrochemical characterization.—All steps occurred within a vacuum glove box (Xiamen Tmaxcn Inc.). As-received THF (anhydrous, 99.9%, Sigma Aldrich) and EC (99%, Acros Organics):PC (99.7%, Sigm...