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Title: Battery cell engineering and design to reach high energy

Abstract

Improved high energy capacity designs for lithium ion batteries are described that take advantage of the properties of high specific capacity anode active compositions and high specific capacity cathode active compositions. In particular, specific electrode designs provide for achieving very high energy densities. Furthermore, the complex behavior of the active materials is used advantageously in a radical electrode balancing design that significantly reduced wasted electrode capacity in either electrode when cycling under realistic conditions of moderate to high discharge rates and/or over a reduced depth of discharge.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Zenlabs Energy, Inc., Fremont, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1632531
Patent Number(s):
10553871
Application Number:
13/464,034
Assignee:
Zenlabs Energy, Inc. (Fremont, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B82 - NANOTECHNOLOGY B82Y - SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01B - CABLES
DOE Contract Number:  
AR0000034
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 05/04/2012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Masarapu, Charan, Deng, Haixia, Han, Yongbong, Anguchamy, Yogesh Kumar, Venkatachalam, Subramanian, Kumar, Sujeet, and Lopez, Herman A. Battery cell engineering and design to reach high energy. United States: N. p., 2020. Web.
Masarapu, Charan, Deng, Haixia, Han, Yongbong, Anguchamy, Yogesh Kumar, Venkatachalam, Subramanian, Kumar, Sujeet, & Lopez, Herman A. Battery cell engineering and design to reach high energy. United States.
Masarapu, Charan, Deng, Haixia, Han, Yongbong, Anguchamy, Yogesh Kumar, Venkatachalam, Subramanian, Kumar, Sujeet, and Lopez, Herman A. Tue . "Battery cell engineering and design to reach high energy". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1632531.
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