Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for implementing cross-zone communication for computing zones executing different coding protocols. A server computer system may receive, via a proxy layer of a first instance of an application executing within a first computing zone according to a first set of coding protocols, a request for a service executed via a second instance of the application in a second computing zone according to a second, different set of coding protocols. The system may alter, via a remote layer of the first instance, a set of data specified in the request to comply with the second, set of protocols. The system may transmit, via the remote layer of the first instance to a remote layer of the second instance, the altered set of data. The system may advantageously provide a simplified development interface allowing for both development and testing within a local environment without deployment of multiple different services.

Abstract: A method for operating a graph database, including receiving, by a computer system, a query to a particular graph database, the query identifying a plurality of vertices of the particular graph database. The method further includes performing, by the computer system, hash operations on two or more of the plurality of vertices to generate respective hash values and dividing, using the respective hash values, the query into a plurality of sub-queries, each corresponding to a subset of the plurality of vertices. The method also includes sending, by the computer system, ones of the plurality of sub-queries to a plurality of database repositories for the particular graph database.

Abstract: Silicon carbon composite materials, preparation methods and applications of the silicon carbon composite material are provided. The silicon carbon composite material includes a core and a carbon coating layer. At least one part of a surface of the core is covered by the carbon coating layer. The core includes a carbon matrix and SiOx particles, the carbon matrix is continuously distributed and includes N channels in communication with outside, and the SiOx particles are filled in the channels. A size of the SiOx particle is 0.1 nm to 0.9 nm, 0.9?x?1.7, and N?1 and is an integer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of finely depositing lithium metal powder or thin lithium foil onto a substrate while avoiding the use of a solvent. The method includes depositing lithium metal powder or thin lithium foil onto a carrier, contacting the carrier with a substrate having a higher affinity for the lithium metal powder as compared to the affinity of the carrier for the lithium metal powder, subjecting the substrate while in contact with the carrier to conditions sufficient to transfer the lithium metal powder or lithium foil deposited on the carrier to the substrate, and separating the carrier and substrate so as to maintain the lithium metal powder or lithium metal foil, deposited on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of finely depositing lithium foil onto a substrate while avoiding the use of a solvent. The method includes depositing lithium foil onto a carrier, contacting the carrier with a substrate having a higher affinity for the lithium metal powder as compared to the affinity of the carrier for the lithium metal powder, subjecting the substrate while in contact with the carrier to conditions sufficient to transfer the lithium foil deposited on the carrier to the substrate, and separating the carrier and substrate so as to maintain the lithium metal foil, deposited on the substrate.

Abstract: A lithium-ion battery cathode material and a method for preparing the same are disclosed. The lithium-ion battery cathode material includes a layered cathode material matrix and a defect layer. The layered cathode material matrix includes body layers and lithium layers, and the body layer includes a transition metal layer and a lithium layer. The defect layer includes atoms with a periodic arrangement different from that of atoms in the matrix or with content different from that of an element in the matrix. The defect layer is parallel to a 003 crystal plane of the layered cathode material matrix, and dimensions of the defect layer are 0.1 nm to 50 nm in at least one direction and 10 nm to 5000 nm in at least another direction.

Abstract: This application provides a segment membrane, a battery combination, and an electrical device. The segment membrane includes a conductive layer, a first insulation layer, and a second insulation layer that are disposed in a laminated manner, where the conductive layer is located between the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer. The conductive layer includes a first conductive part and a second conductive part that are disposed in a laminated manner and electrically connected. The first insulation layer is a frame structure, and the first insulation layer is disposed on a surface that is of the first conductive part and that is away from the second conductive part. The second insulation layer is a frame structure, and the second insulation layer is disposed on a surface that is of the second conductive part and that is away from the first conductive part.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a negative electrode material, including a doped silicon-based material. The doped silicon-based material includes a silicon-based material and doping metal elements distributed inside particles of the silicon-based material. The silicon-based material includes nano-silicon or silicon monoxide. A doping amount of the doping metal elements ranges from 1 ppm to 1000 ppm. The negative electrode material is obtained by doping metal elements with an extreme low content into a crystal structure of the silicon-based material, to maintain stability of an original crystal structure of the silicon-based material while improving conducting performance of the silicon-based material. Therefore, an energy density of a cell can be effectively improved, and the silicon-based material is not prone to be pulverized in a charging/discharging process.

Abstract: An electrode material layer includes an electrode active material and graphene of a sheet-like structure, a surface of the graphene is modified with magnetic response nanodots, and in the graphene, more than 50% of the graphene is arranged at an angle of 45° to 90° with respect to a surface, of the current collector, on which the electrode material layer is disposed, to form a heat conduction path having a specific orientation.

Abstract: A method for preparing an electrode material, an electrode material, and a battery are provided to resolve a prior-art problem that a silicon negative electrode material in a battery is prone to pulverization in a fully intercalated state. The electrode material includes a layered silicon core and graphene quantum dots. The layered silicon core includes at least two layers of silicon-based materials, an interlayer gap exists between two neighboring layers of the at least two layers of silicon-based materials, and the silicon-based material includes at least one of silicon or an oxide of silicon. The graphene quantum dots are located in the interlayer gap between the at least two layers of silicon-based materials.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a lithium secondary battery electrolyte including a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a flame retardant, and the flame retardant includes (pentafluoro) cyclotriphosphazene substituted by an electron donating group and (pentafluoro) cyclotriphosphazene substituted by an electron withdrawing group. Both two flame retardants: the (pentafluoro) cyclotriphosphazene substituted by the electron donating group and the (pentafluoro) cyclotriphosphazene substituted by the electron withdrawing group are added to the lithium secondary battery electrolyte, so that a battery has both high safety performance and good electrochemical performance. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a preparation method for the lithium secondary battery electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery including the lithium secondary battery electrolyte.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium metal powder protected by a substantially continuous layer of a polymer. Such a substantially continuous polymer layer provides improved protection such as compared to typical CO2-passivation.

Abstract: In a method of charging a battery, a charging control device obtains a battery parameter that includes an electrode parameter of the battery and one or more of a structure parameter, a manufacturing process parameter, an electrical parameter, an electrolyte parameter, a diaphragm parameter, and a thermophysical parameter of the battery. The charging control device inputs the battery parameter input into a battery model represented by an ordinary differential equation to obtain a safe charging boundary value of the battery in n cycles, where n is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to N, N is a cycle life of the battery, and the n cycles refer to n cycles selected from 0 to N cycles. The safe charging boundary value is a maximum charging current in which no lithium plating occurs on the battery in different states of charge SOCs and at different temperatures.

Abstract: A silicon-based composite anode material for a battery includes a silicon-based material core and a coating layer coated on a surface of the silicon-based material core. The coating layer includes a first coating layer disposed on the surface of the silicon-based material core and a second coating layer disposed on a surface of the first coating layer. The first coating layer includes a two-dimensional quinone-aldehyde covalent organic framework material, and the second coating layer includes a material with high ionic conductivity. The second coating layer is relatively rigid, and can maintain structural stability of the entire material during silicon expansion and contraction, and effectively alleviates volume expansion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus include obtaining, during a preconfigured time interval, a current-moment charge/discharge current, a current-moment temperature, a current-moment coulomb capacity, and a previous-moment state of charge (SOC) value of a battery, obtaining a discharge duration of the battery, determining a current-moment internal resistance response type of the battery based on the discharge duration, determining current-moment internal resistance data of the battery based on the current-moment internal resistance response type, the current-moment temperature, the current-moment charge/discharge current, and the previous-moment SOC value, determining a current-moment unusable capacity of the battery based on the current-moment internal resistance data, the current-moment charge/discharge current, and the current-moment temperature, and determining a current-moment SOC value of the battery based on the current-moment coulomb capacity and the current-moment unusable capacity.

Abstract: A composite material and a preparation method thereof are provided to solve the prior-art problem that a silicon anode material used in a battery is prone to cracking and pulverization. The composite material includes a layered silicon core and a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The layered silicon core includes a plurality of silicon-based material layers, and there is an interlayer spacing between two adjacent silicon-based material layers. Each silicon-based material layer has at least one through hole, and the silicon-based material layer includes silicon or silicon oxide. Each of the plurality of carbon nanotubes passes through the through holes on the plurality of silicon-based material layers.

Abstract: The present application provides a lithium cobalt oxide positive electrode material, that is, a doped lithium cobalt oxide material: A general formula of doped lithium cobalt oxide is Li1+zCo1?x?yMaxMbyO2, where 0?x?0.01, 0?y?0.01, and ?0.05?z?0.08; Ma is a doped monovalent element, and is at least one of Al, Ga, Hf, Mg, Sn, Zn, or Zr; and Mb is a doped polyvalent element, and is at least one of Ni, Mn, V, Mo, Nb, Cu, Fe, In, W, or Cr. Through substitutional doping of a monovalent element, mutation of a layered structure caused by lithium deintercalation is minimized. Through interstitial doping of a polyvalent element, oxidation of Co3+ is alleviated and delayed during charging.

Abstract: A electrolyte additive includes a six-membered ring structure including three nitrogen atoms and three phosphorus (P) atoms, where each P atom includes two substituted groups, and the substituted groups are represented as R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6, at least one substituted group of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is a substituted sulfonic group, and a remaining substituted group is any one selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkeny, haloalkenyl, alkenyloxy, haloalkenyloxy, aryl, haloaryl, aryloxy, haloaryloxy, a substituted phosphate ester group, a substituted imide group, and a substituted sulfonyl imide group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible battery, including an electrochemical cell layer and a wrapping layer that wraps the electrochemical cell layer. The flexible battery further includes an energy absorbing layer. The energy absorbing layer is located between the wrapping layer and upper and lower surfaces, which are opposite to each other, of the electrochemical cell layer. The energy absorbing layer includes a plurality of supporting parts that protrude outward from the upper or lower surface of the electrochemical cell layer. The plurality of supporting parts are mainly made of a foam material or rubber. For the energy absorbing layer, a lower-modulus buffering layer or an empty part may be further disposed between the electrochemical cell layer and the wrapping layer, to complement a wavy surface of the supporting part to form a flat surface, so as to meet diversified requirements of a wearable device.

Abstract: A method for preparing an electrode material, an electrode material, and a battery are provided to resolve a prior-art problem that a silicon negative electrode material in a battery is prone to pulverization in a fully intercalated state. The electrode material includes a layered silicon core and graphene quantum dots. The layered silicon core includes at least two layers of silicon-based materials, an interlayer gap exists between two neighboring layers of the at least two layers of silicon-based materials, and the silicon-based material includes at least one of silicon or an oxide of silicon. The graphene quantum dots are located in the interlayer gap between the at least two layers of silicon-based materials.