Lithium stuffed garnet setter plates for solid electrolyte fabrication
AssigneeQuantumScape Battery, Inc.
InventorsSriram IYER, Timothy Holme, Niall Donnelly
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Abstract
Setter plates are fabricated from Li-stuffed garnet materials having the same, or substantially similar, compositions as a garnet Li-stuffed solid electrolyte. The Li-stuffed garnet setter plates, set forth herein, reduce the evaporation of Li during a sintering treatment step and/or reduce the loss of Li caused by diffusion out of the sintering electrolyte. Li-stuffed garnet setter plates, set forth herein, maintain compositional control over the solid electrolyte during sintering when, upon heating, lithium is prone to diffuse out of the solid electrolyte.
Claims21
1-118. (canceled)
A composition comprising at least two materials selected from the group consisting of Li2ZrO3, Li2SiO3, LiLaO2, LiAlO2, Li2O, Li3PO4, La2Li0.5Al0.5O4, and a lithium-stuffed garnet, wherein the lithium-stuffed garnet is characterized by the formula LiALaBM′CM″DZrEOF, wherein 4<A<8.5, 1.5<B<4, 0<C<2, 0<D<2;
- 0≤E<2, 10<F<13, and M′ and M″ are each, independently in each instance, selected from the group consisting of Al, Mo, W, Nb, Sb, Ca, Ba, Sr, Ce, Hf, Rb, and Ta,
- wherein the composition comprises the lithium-stuffed garnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.