Jill Brandenberger
Jill Brandenberger is a coastal oceanographer with over 25 years of experience building multidisciplinary teams to translate science to inform national security mission sustainment.
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Microgrid Stabilization Using Volt/VAR Optimization (VVO)
Chief Scientist, Data Sciences, and Director (interim), Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data, Draguna L. Vrabie, PhD
Sensor Fish Mini
High-Energy-Density, Aqueous, Metal-Polyiodide Redox Flow Batteries
Improved metal-based redox flow batteries (RFBs) can utilize a metal and a divalent cation of the metal (M2+) as an active redox couple for a first electrode and electrolyte, respectively, in a first half-cell. For example, the metal can be Zn. The RFBs can also utilize a second electrolyte having I−, anions of Ix (for x≧3), or both in an aqueous solution, wherein the I− and the anions of Ix (for x≧3) compose an active redox couple in a second half-cell.
METHOD FOR PREPARING LITHIUM PHOSPHATE SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTES (iEdison No. 0685901-20-0032.)
The main object of the present invention is to provide a new and general wet-chemical synthesis method to prepare various Li2S and P2S5 based sulfide solid electrolytes (SSEs) materials with high Li+ conductivity for solid state Li batteries. This invention solves the large scale preparation issue of sulfide solid electrolyte materials with small size and high Li+ conductivity, and also present a general method to prepare a series of important sulfide solid electrolyte materials with such characteristics, such as Li3PS4, Li7P3S11 and Li7PS6.
Matteo Muratori
USE OF CARBON METAL COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR SURFACE TREATMENT TO IMPROVE SODIUM WETTABILITY ON SOLID STATE ELECTROLYTES (iEdison No. 0685901-21-0116)
This present invention reports a method for drastically improving sodium (Na) wettability on the surface of solid-state electrolytes, such as beta"-alumina solid-state electrolyte (BASE), to augment the performance of Na batteries at lower temperatures. This method describes modify the BASE surface by adding a thin composite layer consisting of carbon black and metal oxide/metal submicron particles. The overall surface treatment process is simple and easy for scaling up. Initially, the BASE surface is simply brushed with thick aqueous ink made of carbon black and metal compound precursors, and then followed by a heat treatment under an inert or a reducing environment.
DIRECT SYNTHESIS OF NICKEL-RICH MONOCRYSTALLINE NMC FROM A TRANSITION METAL HYDROXIDE PRECURSOR AND A LITHIUM COMPOUND (iEdison No. 0685901-24-0165)
This invention is a follow-up work of our precious patents: US11862794B2 and US20220112094A1. Both titled 'Cost effective synthesis of oxide materials for lithium-ion batteries". Based on previous work, in this invention, one-step method to synthesize Ni-rich monocrystalline NMC is developed. The one-step method is: heat a solid hydroxide precursor comprising NixMnyMzCo1-x-y-z(OH)2 with Li2O to produce monocrystalline lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide having a formula LiNiXMnyMzCo1-x-y-zO2.The time at high temperature annealing is reduced to 1 minute, making the synthesis of Ni-rich monocrystalline more cost effective.