Patents by Inventor Andrew Murchison
Andrew Murchison has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11049667Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat energy-powered electrochemical cell including an anode, a cathode, and a solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte. The solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte includes between 1% and 50% metal polymer by weight as compared to total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight and between 50% and 90% solid glass electrolyte by weight as compared to the total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight. The solid glass electrolyte includes a working cation and an electric dipole. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be used to capture heat from a variety of sources, including solar hear, waste heat, and body heat. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be fabricated at large-area, thin cells.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Hydro-QuebecInventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Andrew Murchison
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Publication number: 20200402729Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat energy-powered electrochemical cell including an anode, a cathode, and a solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte. The solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte includes between 1% and 50% metal polymer by weight as compared to total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight and between 50% and 90% solid glass electrolyte by weight as compared to the total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight. The solid glass electrolyte includes a working cation and an electric dipole. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be used to capture heat from a variety of sources, including solar hear, waste heat, and body heat. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be fabricated at large-area, thin cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Andrew Murchison
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Patent number: 10804040Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat energy-powered electrochemical cell including an anode, a cathode, and a solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte. The solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte includes between 1% and 50% metal polymer by weight as compared to total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight and between 50% and 90% solid glass electrolyte by weight as compared to the total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight. The solid glass electrolyte includes a working cation and an electric dipole. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be used to capture heat from a variety of sources, including solar hear, waste heat, and body heat. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be fabricated at large-area, thin cells.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Hydro-QuebecInventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Andrew Murchison
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Publication number: 20200090877Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat energy-powered electrochemical cell including an anode, a cathode, and a solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte. The solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte includes between 1% and 50% metal polymer by weight as compared to total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight and between 50% and 90% solid glass electrolyte by weight as compared to the total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight. The solid glass electrolyte includes a working cation and an electric dipole. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be used to capture heat from a variety of sources, including solar hear, waste heat, and body heat. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be fabricated at large-area, thin cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Andrew Murchison
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Patent number: 10511055Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0?x?1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: John B. Goodenough, Andrew Murchison, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga
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Patent number: 10490360Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat energy-powered electrochemical cell including an anode, a cathode, and a solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte. The solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte includes between 1% and 50% metal polymer by weight as compared to total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight and between 50% and 90% solid glass electrolyte by weight as compared to the total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight. The solid glass electrolyte includes a working cation and an electric dipole. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be used to capture heat from a variety of sources, including solar hear, waste heat, and body heat. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be fabricated at large-area, thin cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Andrew Murchison
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Publication number: 20190326629Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0?x?1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Andrew Murchison, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga
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Patent number: 10381683Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0?x?1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: John B. Goodenough, Andrew Murchison, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga
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Patent number: 10361454Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0?x?1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: John B. Goodenough, Andrew Murchison, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga
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Publication number: 20190148763Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical cell including a solid glass electrolyte including an alkali metal working ion that is conducted by the electrolyte, and a dipole, an anode having an effective anode chemical potential ?A, and a cathode having an effective cathode chemical potential ?C. One or both of the cathode and anode substantially lack the working ion prior to an initial charge or discharge of the electrochemical cell. At open-circuit prior to an initial charge or discharge, an electric double-layer capacitor is formed at one or both of an interface between the solid glass electrolyte and the anode and an interface between the solid glass electrolyte and the cathode due to a difference between ?A and ?C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Jose Jorge Do Amaral Ferreira, Joana Cassilda Rodrigues Espain De Oliveira, Andrew Murchison
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Publication number: 20190115162Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat energy-powered electrochemical cell including an anode, a cathode, and a solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte. The solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte includes between 1% and 50% metal polymer by weight as compared to total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight and between 50% and 90% solid glass electrolyte by weight as compared to the total solid metal polymer/glass electrolyte weight. The solid glass electrolyte includes a working cation and an electric dipole. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be used to capture heat from a variety of sources, including solar hear, waste heat, and body heat. The heat energy-powered electrochemical cells may be fabricated at large-area, thin cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Andrew Murchison
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Publication number: 20180287222Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical cell including a solid glass electrolyte including an alkali metal working ion that is conducted by the electrolyte, and a dipole, an anode having an effective anode chemical potential ?A, and a cathode having an effective cathode chemical potential ?C. One or both of the cathode and anode substantially lack the working ion prior to an initial charge or discharge of the electrochemical cell. At open-circuit prior to an initial charge or discharge, an electric double-layer capacitor is formed at one or both of an interface between the solid glass electrolyte and the anode and an interface between the solid glass electrolyte and the cathode due to a difference between ?A and ?C.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga, Jose Jorge Do Amaral Ferreira, Joana Cassilda Rodrigues Espain de Oliveira, Andrew Murchison
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Publication number: 20180102569Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0?x?1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Andrew Murchison, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga
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Publication number: 20180013170Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrochemical storage cell including a battery. The battery includes an alkali metal anode having an anode Fermi energy, an electronically insulating, amorphous, dried solid electrolyte able to conduct alkali metal, having the general formula A3-xHxOX, in which 0?x?1, A is the alkali metal, and X is at least one halide, and a cathode including a cathode current collector having a cathode Fermi energy lower than the anode Fermi energy. During operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal plates dendrite-free from the solid electrolyte onto the alkali metal anode. Also during operation of the electrochemical storage cell, the alkali metal further plates on the cathode current collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: John B. Goodenough, Andrew Murchison, Maria Helena Sousa Soares De Oliveira Braga