US 12,407,045 B2 · Electrochemical device, batteries, method for harvesting light and storing electrical energy, and detection methods

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electrochemical device, comprising a negative electrode comprising a nitrogen-containing electron storage material, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte, wherein the nitrogen-containing electron storage material has a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional covalent structure, contains heptazine and/or triazine moieties, and is capable of intercalating and de-intercalating cations. The present invention is further directed to a uses the material, a photorechargeable battery, an autophotorechargeable battery, a redox-flow-battery, a method for harvesting light and storing electrical energy, a method for detecting and removing oxygen, and a method for detecting light.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An autophotorechargeable battery comprising

a negative electrode comprising a substrate with a surface and a layer comprising an electron storage material provided on the surface of the substrate, wherein the electron storage material is a nitrogen-containing electron storage material and/or has a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional covalent structure, and wherein the electron storage material can absorb light to excite electrons and store the exited electrons therein;
a positive electrode comprising a substrate with a surface, and a layer comprising a hole storage material provided on the surface of the substrate, and
an electrolyte.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/421,648Filed 9 Jan 2019

Published

US 2022/0093997 A124 Mar 2022

Granted

2 Sep 2025

Term ends

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Classification17 codes

H01M 14/005
Electrochemical current or voltage generators not provided for in groups H01M6/00 - H01M12/00; Manufacture thereof: photoelectrochemical storage cells
H01G 11/02
Hybrid capacitors, i.e. capacitors having different positive and negative electrodes; Electric double-layer [EDL] capacitors; Processes for the…:…
H01G 11/38
Carbon-based: carbon pastes or blends; Binders or additives therein
H01G 11/62
Liquid electrolytes: characterised by the solute, e.g. salts, anions or cations therein

Electrochemical device, batteries, method for harvesting light and storing electrical energy, and detection methods

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Electrochemical device, batteries, method for harvesting light and storing electrical energy, and detection methods

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Abstract

Claims15