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SYNERGISTIC ENHANCEMENT OF LI-AIR BATTERY CAPACITY USING CNC/MWCNT COMPOSITES
There is a clear need to increase energy densities of batteries for use in electric vehicles and airplanes. Using Li-O2 is a solution with theoretical energy densities close to 3500( Wh/Kg), cheap to manufacture as carbon is the cathode material used instead of costly metals as is the case with Li-ion batteries. Carbon-Nano-tube(CNT) is the state of...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Wagner
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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
Production of Carbon Nanochains and Nanotubes from Biomass
Researchers at GW have invented methods as to the production of carbon nanochains and nanotubes from biomass and other carbonaceous materials. The novel resulting carbon nanochains and nanotubes are highly porous, highly stable, and highly inexpensive. As a result of its porosity, lithium metal can be deposited onto the carbon nanochain material by...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Wagner, Nathan Banek, Dustin Abele, Kevin McKenzie
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Industrial Manufacturing, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment
Low Temperature High Yield Synthesis of Hydrogen Terminated Highly Porous Amorphous Silicon for Energetic Applications
Researchers at GW have invented a method to manufacture H-terminated silicon that is amorphous and highly porous. The method to manufacture is highly efficient, in that, it involves cost-effective steps and can be performed on a large-scale level. This H-terminated silicon can also be domestically produced. This H-terminated silicon has various industrial...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Wagner, Nathan Banek
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Industrial Manufacturing, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials
Production of Li-Ion Battery-Grade Graphite
Researchers at The George Washington University are developing an innovative method to make high purity crystalline flake graphite from low-cost biomass. The novel Graphite technology invented at GW will slash cost of Li-Ion battery grade graphite (99.5% purity) by more than 80% (from about $20,000/ton to $2,500/ton). Considering the “STRATEGIC”...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Wagner, Nathan Banek, Dustin Abele, Kevin McKenzie
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials
Aluminum Coated Silicon Nanoparticles for Li-ion Battery Anodes
Researchers at The George Washington University are developing an innovative material for use in Li-ion battery anodes. The market for Li-ion battery ANODE materials is about $1 billion per year. The market is expected to grow rapidly in the following decades because of electric vehicles. Current Li-ion batteries use mostly graphite anodes. Silicon...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Wagner, Nathan Banek
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech
Greatly improved Li-ion battery – much higher “energy storage capacity” & “charging rates”
The problem: most batteries use graphite as anode material. Graphite has poor energy storage capacity. The solution: Researchers at the Geoerge Washington University (GW) have developed a new type of composite materials based on HCNS (hollow carbon nanospheres), which have the ability to charge at much higher rates and greatly exceed the energy-storage...
Published: 7/30/2024   |   Inventor(s): Michael Wagner, Nathan Banek, Kevin Hays
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials
Coherent Evanescent Wave Imaging System
Nanotechnology is the study of the control of matter at the atomic and molecular level, and is focused mainly on the creation of materials and equipment to work within that scale. One thing holding back the advancement of this technology is the lack of experimental tools capable of visualizing nanoprocesses in real time across their full range of operation....
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Rodolfo Rudy Diaz, Ampere Tseng, Jose Menendez, Karl Booksh, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Michael Wagner
Keywords(s): Inspection, Instrumentation, Test
Category(s): Physical Science, Advanced Materials/Nanotechnology