Selenium impregnated materials as free-standing electrodes
AssigneeDavid Mitlin
InventorsDavid Mitlin, Jia Ding
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Abstract
A material used as an electrode or an additive in an electrochemical storage device, the material including a carbon material; and a compound selected from the group consisting of Se, SeySx, TeySx, TezSeySx and combinations thereof, where x, y and z are any value between 0 and 1, the sum of y and x being 1, and the sum of z, y and x being 1, the compound impregnated in the carbon material. An electrode including the aforementioned material and a method to improve performance of an electrochemical storage device, the method including incorporating the aforementioned material into the electrochemical storage device.
Claims22
A material used as an electrode or an additive in an electrochemical storage device, the material comprising:
- a carbon material;
- and
- a compound selected from the group consisting of Se, SeySx, TeySx, TezSeySx and combinations thereof, where x, y and z are any value between 0 and 1, the sum of y and x being 1, and the sum of z, y and x being 1, the compound impregnated in the carbon material.
An electrochemical storage device comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- at least one electrode comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of Se, SeySx, TeySx, TezSeySx and combinations thereof, where x, y and z are any value between 0 and 1, the sum of y and x being 1, and the sum of z, y and x being 1.
A battery comprising:
- an anode;
- a separator;
- a cathode, the cathode comprising:
- a carbon material and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of Se, SeySx, TeySx, TezSeySx, and combinations thereof, where x, y and z are any value between 0 and 1, the sum of y and x being 1, and the sum of z, y and x being 1, wherein the at least one compound is impregnated into the carbon-material;
- and
- an electrolyte.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.