Electrochemical capacitor
AssigneeIntegrated Resources Recovery, Inc.
InventorThomas A. Reynolds
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Abstract
An electroactive material for charge storage and transport in an electrochemical capacitor. The material is formed of a plurality of nanocomponents including nanoparticles, in turn formed of conductive carbon-based clusters bound together by a conductive carbon-based cluster binder including nanoclusters and nanocluster binders, all having high densities of mobile charge carriers (electrons, electronic acceptors, ionic species). A terminal is electrically coupled to the nanoparticles for charge transport.
Claims19
An electroactive material for charge transport in an electrochemical capacitor comprising,
- a first plurality of particles, each particle including,
- a plurality of clusters, each cluster including,
- a carbon nanosphere core,
- a composite layer surrounding and bound to the nanosphere core, the composite layer including zinc sulfide nanoclusters embedded in the composite layer, and
- a binding composite binding the plurality of clusters,
- a first terminal electrically coupled to the first plurality of particles for charge transport.
A electrochemical capacitor comprising,
- a first electroactive electrode including,
- a first plurality of particles, each particle including,
- a plurality of clusters, each cluster including,
- a carbon nanosphere core,
- a composite layer surrounding and bound to the nanosphere core, the composite layer including zinc sulfide nanoclusters embedded in the composite layer, and
- a binding composite binding the plurality of clusters,
- a first terminal electrically coupled to the first plurality of particles for charge transport,
- a second electroactive electrode including,
- a second plurality of particles, each particle including,
- a plurality of clusters, each cluster including,
- a carbon nanosphere core,
- a composite layer surrounding and bound to the nanosphere core, the composite layer including zinc sulfide nanoclusters embedded in the composite layer, and
- a binding composite binding the plurality of clusters,
- a second terminal electrically coupled to the second plurality of particles for charge transport,
- a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode,
- an electrolyte contacting the first and second electrodes for charge transport between the first and second electrodes using electrolyte ions.
An electroactive material for charge transport in an electrochemical capacitor comprising,
- a plurality of nanocomponents including nanoparticles formed of conductive carbon-based clusters bound together by a conductive carbon-based cluster binder and including nanoclusters and nanocluster binders, the nanocomponents having high densities of mobile charge carriers, the nanocomponents in combination supply high densities of electrons and electron acceptor sites for facilitating electron travel through the binders with proximity to the nanoclusters,
- a terminal electrically coupled to the nanoparticles for charge transport.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.