Patents by Inventor HuiWen JI

HuiWen JI 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).

  • Patent number: 10978706
    Abstract: A disordered rocksalt lithium metal oxide and oxyfluoride as in manganese-vanadium oxides and oxyfluorides well suited for use in high capacity lithium-ion battery electrodes such as those found in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. A lithium metal oxide or oxyfluoride example is one having a general formula: LixM?aM?bO2-yFy, with the lithium metal oxide or oxyfluoride having a cation-disordered rocksalt structure of one of (a) or (b), with (a) 1.09?x?1.35, 0.1?a?0.7, 0.1?b?0.7, and 0?y?0.7; M? is a low valent transition metal and M? is a high-valent transition metal; and (b) 1.1?x?1.33, 0.1?a?0.41, 0.39?b?0.67, and 0?y?0.3; M? is Mn; and M? is V or Mo. The oxides or oxyfluorides balance accessible Li capacity and transition metal capacity. An immediate application example is for high energy density Li-cathode battery materials, where the cathode energy is a key limiting factor to overall performance. The second structure (b) is optimized for maximal accessible Li capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Gerbrand Ceder, HuiWen Ji, Zhengyan Lun, William Richards, Daniil Kitchaev
  • Publication number: 20210020908
    Abstract: Li-ion battery materials, such as Li-ion cathodes, are provided that have spinels characterized by a close-packed face-centered-cubic rocksalt-type structure and spinel-like ordered TM (the TM preferably occupying one of the two octahedral sites 16c and 16d) that favor fast Li transport kinetics. Such spinels have a larger deviation from a normal spinel and have a formula. Li1+xTM2-yO4-zFz where 0.2?x?1, 0.2?y?0.6, and 0?z?0.8; and TM is Mn, Ni, Co, Al, Sc, Ti, Zr, Mg, Nb, or a mixture thereof. The spinels achieve a higher gravimetric energy density than traditional spinels while still retaining high capacity at an extremely fast charging/discharging rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: The Regents of University of California
    Inventors: Gerbrand CEDER, HuiWen JI
  • Publication number: 20190088945
    Abstract: A disordered rocksalt lithium metal oxide and oxyfluoride as in manganese-vanadium oxides and oxyfluorides well suited for use in high capacity lithium-ion battery electrodes such as those found in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. A lithium metal oxide or oxyfluoride example is one having a general formula: LixM?aM?bO2-yFy, with the lithium metal oxide or oxyfluoride having a cation-disordered rocksalt structure of one of (a) or (b), with (a) 1.09?x?1.35, 0.1?a?0.7, 0.1?b?0.7, and 0?y<0.7; M? is a low valent transition metal and M? is a high-valent transition metal; and (b) 1.1?x?1.33, 0.1?a?0.41, 0.39?b?0.67, and 0?y?0.3; M? is Mn; and M? is V or Mo. The oxides or oxyfluorides balance accessible Li capacity and transition metal capacity. An immediate application example is for high energy density Li-cathode battery materials, where the cathode energy is a key limiting factor to overall performance. The second structure (b) is optimized for maximal accessible Li capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Inventors: Gerbrand CEDER, HuiWen JI, Zhengyan LUN, William RICHARDS, Daniil Kitchaev