Elemental metal and carbon mixtures for energy storage devices
AssigneeTesla, Inc.
InventorsHieu Minh Duong, Porter Mitchell, Mohammed-Yazid Saidi
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Abstract
An energy storage device can include a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the first electrode or the second electrode includes elemental lithium metal and carbon particles. A method for fabricating an energy storage device can include forming a first electrode and a second electrode, and inserting a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, where forming the first electrode or the second electrode can include combining elemental lithium metal and a plurality of carbon particles.
Claims40
An electrode film, comprising:
- carbon particles, an elemental metal and a fibrillizable binder;
- wherein at least some of the elemental metal is coated on at least a portion of at least some of the carbon particles;
- and
- wherein the electrode film is substantially free of solvent residue.
A method for fabricating an electrode film, comprising:
- combining an elemental metal, a plurality of carbon particles and a fibrillizable binder to form an electrode film mixture, wherein at least some of the elemental metal is coated on at least a portion of at least some of the plurality of carbon particles;
- and
- forming an electrode film from the electrode film mixture, wherein the electrode film is substantially free of solvent residue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.