Plural Metals Or Metal And Ammonium Containing Patents (Class 423/593.1)
  • Patent number: 11883800
    Abstract: A variety of redox catalysts, methods of making, and methods of using thereof are provided. Surface modified redox catalysts are provided having an oxygen carrier core with an outer surface that has been modified to enhance the selectivity of the redox catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation. The surface modification can include forming a redox catalyst outer layer on the outer surface and/or suppressing sites that form nonselective electrophilic oxygen sites on the outer surface of the oxygen carrier. A variety of methods are provided for making the surface modified redox catalysts, e.g. modified Pechini methods. A variety of methods are provided for using the catalysts for oxidative cracking of light paraffins. Methods are provided for oxidative cracking of light paraffins by contacting the paraffin with a core-shell redox catalyst described herein to convert the paraffins to water and olefins, diolefins, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Fanxing Li, Luke Michael Neal, Junshe Zhang
  • Patent number: 11765989
    Abstract: A composition of matter consisting primarily of a stabilizing element and a transition metal oxide, wherein the transition metal oxide is an anti-ferromagnetic Mott insulator with strong spin orbit interactions, and the composition of matter has a canted crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventor: Gang Cao
  • Patent number: 11701600
    Abstract: A method for crystallization of ?-ammonium tetramolybdate includes: performing a stepwise pH-adjusting treatment of an ammonium molybdate solution via zoning to obtain the ?-ammonium tetramolybdate. When feeding the ammonium molybdate solution into a reaction system from a first zone and then into second to sixth zones successively, pH1 of a resultant solution in the first zone is 7.0-6.0; pH2 of a resultant solution in the second zone is less than 6 and greater than or equal to 4; pH3 of a resultant solution in the third zone is less than 4 and greater than or equal to 2.5; pH4 of a crystallized slurry in the fourth zone is less than 2.5 and greater than or equal to 1; pH5 of a crystallized slurry in the fifth zone is 2.5-4.0; and pH6 of a crystallized slurry in the sixth zone is less than 2.5 and greater than or equal to 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jiangtao Li, Zhongwei Zhao, Zhichao Li, Xingyu Chen, Xuheng Liu, Lihua He, Fenglong Sun, Yongjin Luo, Muye Cui
  • Patent number: 11613693
    Abstract: A method of producing an organic pigment composition including at least organic pigment microparticles, wherein a diffuse reflectance of the organic pigment microparticles is controlled for the purpose of improving a luminance of a color filter. The luminance of the color filter is controlled to be high, by controlling a ratio of an area of the diffuse reflectance in a target wavelength range to a total area of the diffuse reflectance in the entire measurement wavelength range in a diffuse reflection spectrum of the organic pigment microparticles in the wavelength range of 380 to 780 nm, to be high. The luminance of the color filter is controlled to be high, by coating at least a part of the surface of the organic pigment microparticles with an oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: M. TECHNIQUE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Enomura, Daisuke Honda
  • Patent number: 11532814
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries includes a lithium composite metal compound containing secondary particles that are aggregates of primary particles which are capable of being doped or dedoped with lithium ions and satisfies all of specific requirements (1) to (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, TANAKA CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Takamori, Yuichiro Imanari, Yusuke Maeda
  • Patent number: 11130675
    Abstract: A nanoparticle containing monoclinic lutetium oxide. A method of: dispersing a lutetium salt solution in a stream of oxygen gas to form droplets, and combusting the droplets to form nanoparticles containing lutetium oxide. The combustion occurs at a temperature sufficient to form monoclinic lutetium oxide in the nanoparticles. An article containing lutetium oxide and having an average grain size of at most 10 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Colin C. Baker, Woohong Kim, Guillermo R. Villalobos, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Ishwar D. Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 10899616
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods for producing metal oxynitrides using flame synthesis. Embodiments of the disclosure may provide advantages over prior synthesis techniques by reducing synthesis time. Additionally, methods and systems disclosed herein may achieve better incorporation of nitrogen atoms into the oxide structure due in part to the higher homogeneity of flame made particles and ability to control the reaction environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: University of South Carolina
    Inventors: Erdem Sasmaz, Nicole Cordonnier, Benjamin Meekins, Jennifer Naglic
  • Patent number: 10838112
    Abstract: A method for forming a light extraction layer including nanostructures, the method including: providing a substrate, the substrate being at least partially transparent to UV light; forming a non-aqueous precursor solution comprising fluorine and an alkaline earth metal to form alkaline earth metal difluoride particles; applying the precursor solution on at least a first side of the substrate; drying the substrate at a first temperature for a first period of time; and baking the substrate at a second temperature, higher than the first temperature, for a second period of time, thereby forming a light extraction nanostructure layer comprising alkaline earth metal difluoride nanostructures on the substrate. Also, a light extraction structure and to a UV lamp including such an extraction structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Lightlab Sweden AB
    Inventors: Jan-Otto Carlsson, Olesya Nikonova
  • Patent number: 10626508
    Abstract: Iron-containing mixed-phase metal oxides are described. The mixed-phase metal oxides can exhibit electrocatalytic and/or photo-electrocatalytic activity towards reducing reactions, such as the reduction of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Lawrence Robert Baker, Xin Yang
  • Patent number: 10280488
    Abstract: An iron-based powder for powder metallurgy includes an iron-based powder and a composite oxide powder, and the composite oxide contains, by mass, from 15% to 30% Si, from 9% to 18% Al, from 3% to 6% B, from 0.5% to 3% Mg, from 2% to 6% Ca, from 0.01% to 1% Sr, and from 45% to 55% O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ueno, Koji Yamada, Kazuya Takizawa, Yuki Adachi, Tetsuya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10196716
    Abstract: An iron-based powder for powder metallurgy includes an iron-based powder and a composite oxide powder, and the composite oxide contains, by mass, from 15% to 30% Si, from 9% to 18% Al, from 3% to 6% B, from 0.5% to 3% Mg, from 2% to 6% Ca, from 0.01% to 1% Sr, and from 45% to 55% O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ueno, Koji Yamada, Kazuya Takizawa, Yuki Adachi, Tetsuya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10160660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to vanadium oxide and methods of controlling reaction processes for making such materials (e.g., powders). In particular embodiments, the method includes control of oxygen partial pressure in order to kinetically control the oxidation species of the crystalline vanadium oxide material. Other methods, uses, systems, protocols, and coatings are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Rodriguez, Nelson S. Bell, Paul G. Clem, Cynthia Edney, James Griego
  • Patent number: 10106464
    Abstract: Provided axe porous titanate compound particles capable of giving excellent fade resistance when used in a friction material, a resin compound and a friction material each containing the porous titanate compound particles, and a method for producing the porous titanate compound particles. Porous titanate compound particles are each formed of titanate compound crystal grains bonded together and have a cumulative pore volume of 5% or more within a pore diameter range of 0.01 to 1.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: OTSUKA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shogo Kamada
  • Patent number: 10004668
    Abstract: Zirconia dental ceramics exhibiting opalescence and having a grain size in the range of 10 nm to 300 nm, a density of at least 99.5% of theoretical density, a visible light transmittance at or higher than 45% at 560 nm, and a strength of at least 800 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitri G. Brodkin, Yijun Wang, Ling Tang, Ajmal Khan, Anna B. Verano
  • Patent number: 9988310
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition contains a first main ingredient of BaTiO3 and a second main ingredient of BaTi2O5, and a base material powder containing the first and second main ingredients is represented by (1?x)BaTiO3?xBaTi2O5 and x satisfies 0.1?x?0.8. The dielectric ceramic composition may include additional accessory ingredients, and may be used to form ceramic sheets having internal electrodes of a multilayer ceramic capacitor disposed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Hyun Yoon, Seung Ho Lee, Jung Wook Seo, Song Je Jeon
  • Patent number: 9909221
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for producing metal-containing particles, the method comprising subjecting an aqueous solution comprising a metal salt, Eh, lowering reducing agent, pH adjusting agent, and water to conditions that maintain the Eh value of the solution within the bounds of an Eh-pH stability field corresponding to the composition of the metal-containing particles to be produced, and producing said metal-containing particles in said aqueous solution at a selected Eh value within the bounds of said Eh-pH stability field. The invention is also directed to the resulting metal-containing particles as well as devices in which they are incorporated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Ji-Won Moon, Hyunsung Jung, Tommy Joe Phelps, Chad E. Duty, Ilia N. Ivanov, Pooran Chandra Joshi, Gerald Earle Jellison, Jr., Beth Louise Armstrong, Sean Campbell Smith, Adam Justin Rondinone, Lonnie J. Love
  • Patent number: 9905840
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material including polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide and a sodium-containing coating layer on a surface of the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide, and a method preparing the same. Since the cathode active material according to an embodiment of the present invention may prevent direct contact between the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide and an electrolyte solution by including the sodium-containing coating layer on the surface of the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide, the cathode active material may prevent side reactions between the cathode active material and the electrolyte solution. In addition, since limitations, such as the Jahn-Teller distortion and the dissolution of Mn2+, may be addressed by structurally stabilizing the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide, tap density, life characteristics, and charge and discharge capacity characteristics of a secondary battery may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ick Soon Kwak, Seung Beom Cho, Hwa Seok Chae
  • Patent number: 9905851
    Abstract: Provided are a cathode active material including polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide and a boron-containing coating layer on a surface of the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide, and a method preparing the same. Since the cathode active material according to an embodiment of the present invention may prevent direct contact between the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide and an electrolyte solution by including the boron-containing coating layer on the surface of the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide, the cathode active material may prevent side reactions between the cathode active material and the electrolyte solution. In addition, since limitations, such as the Jahn-Teller distortion and the dissolution of Mn2+, may be addressed by structurally stabilizing the polycrystalline lithium manganese oxide, tap density, life characteristics, and charge and discharge capacity characteristics of a secondary battery may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ick Soon Kwak, Seung Beom Cho, Hwa Seok Chae
  • Patent number: 9450271
    Abstract: The invention id directed to an article which contains a solid ion conductor which has a garnet-like crystal structure and has the stoichiometric composition L7+xAxG3?xZr2O12, where L is in each case independently a monovalent cation, A is in each case independently a divalent cation, G is in each case independently a trivalent cation, 0 ?x?3 and O can be partly or completely replaced by divalent or trivalent anion, wherein the article is a battery, an accumulator, a supercap, a fuel cell, sensor, a thermoelectric converter or an electrochromic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Werner Weppner, Ramaswamy Murugan
  • Patent number: 9376332
    Abstract: Described herein are elements comprising a p-type semiconductor comprising mixed valence oxide compounds and an n-type semiconductor having a deeper valence band than the p-type semiconductor valence bands wherein the semiconductor types are in ionic communication with each other. The elements enhance photocatalytic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ekambaram Sambandan, Bin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9358521
    Abstract: A sulfur sorbent composition includes a support structure and a double oxide sulfur scavenger that is supported on the support structure. The support structure may be diatomaceous earth or a zeolitic-type mineral, and the sulfur scavenger a metal and/or a metal oxide and/or a combination of two or more metal and/or oxides. The sulfur sorbent composition can be used either as a stand-alone device or in conjunction with a fuel reformer to provide a sulfur-free stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: The University of Toledo
    Inventor: Abdul-Majeed Azad
  • Patent number: 9283538
    Abstract: A sorbent for capturing CO2 is fabricated. The sorbent is pelletized and used under a medium or high temperature. The sorbent is mainly made of aluminum calcium carbonate (Ca—Al—CO3). The present invention has a controllable ratio for mixing Ca—Al—CO3 with a release agent (magnesium stearate, MgSt) and a binder (activated carbon, cement or bentonite). The sorbent has a good performance for anti-degradation under a high temperature with 100% of CO2. During 10 loops of use, 43.3˜47.5% of CO2 is captured with an initial amount up to 10 milli-moles per gram (mmol/g) and a stability ratio up to 91.2% maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Ching-Tsung Yu, Wun-Syong Chen, Huan-Ting Kuo
  • Patent number: 9166224
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery that includes, as a negative active material, a lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12) compound containing 0.004 parts by weight or less of phosphorous (P) and 0.007 parts by weight or less of potassium (K) based on 100 parts by weight of lithium titanate, a binder, and a conductive agent, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Mi Yu, Jong-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 9147885
    Abstract: Compositions having electrocatalytic activity and composites having electrocatalytic activity, as well as processes for making compositions and composites are described. Also, processes for using such compositions and/or composites, such as, for example, a machine or equipment are described. Some aspects of embodiments and/or embodiments of the present invention are directed to a nanosize transition metal alloy (such as for example an alloy and/or one or more intermetallics comprising copper, cobalt, nickel, palladium, platinum, ruthenium, the like, and combinations thereof) that is electrocatalytically active. Some other aspects of embodiments and/or embodiments of the present invention are directed to a composite material comprising a nanosize transition metal alloy and a carbonaceous matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: KEMIJSKI INSTITUT
    Inventors: Marjan Bele, Miran Gaber{hacek over (sc)}ek, Gregor Kapun, Nejc Hodnik, Stanko Ho{hacek over (c)}evar
  • Patent number: 9126833
    Abstract: A method for the rapid and continuous production of crystalline mixed-metal oxides from a precursor solution comprised of a polymerizing agent, chelated metal ions, and a solvent. The method discharges solution droplets of less than 500 ?m diameter using an atomizing or spray-type process into a reactor having multiple temperature zones. Rapid evaporation occurs in a first zone, followed by mixed-metal organic foam formation in a second zone, followed by amorphous and partially crystalline oxide precursor formation in a third zone, followed by formation of the substantially crystalline mixed-metal oxide in a fourth zone. The method operates in a continuous rather than batch manner and the use of small droplets as the starting material for the temperature-based process allows relatively high temperature processing. In a particular embodiment, the first zone operates at 100-300° C., the second zone operates at 300-700° C., and the third operates at 700-1000° C., and fourth zone operates at at least 700° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: U.S. Department of Energy
    Inventors: David A. Berry, Daniel J. Haynes, Dushyant Shekhawat, Mark W. Smith
  • Patent number: 9115001
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a nanomaterial synthesis process from the decomposition and subsequent reaction among common and economical insoluble precursors, or precursors which hydrolyze in contact with water, which are incorporated in the internal phase of an emulsion. These insoluble precursors are introduced in the internal phase of an emulsion, then being subject to decomposition and subsequent reaction in the solid state, under shockwave effect during the detonation of the emulsion, the nanomaterial with the intended structure being in the end obtained. The process of the present invention therefore allows obtaining a wide range of nanomaterial as composites or binary, ternary structures or higher structures, with small-sized homogenous primary particles, applicable to several technological fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Innovnano—Materiais A vançados, S.A.
    Inventors: Elsa Marisa Dos Santos Antunes, João Manuel Calado Da Silva, Ana Lúcia Costa Lagoa
  • Patent number: 9061272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a copper ion-modified tungsten oxide photocatalyst subjected to chemical etching treatment with a basic aqueous solution in which a rate of change in diffuse reflectance of the photocatalyst as measured at a wavelength of 700 nm between before and after irradiated with an ultraviolet light in atmospheric air is less than 10%; and a process for producing a copper ion-modified tungsten oxide photocatalyst which includes a copper ion modifying step of modifying a tungsten oxide powder with a copper ion; a chemical etching step of subjecting the tungsten oxide powder to chemical etching treatment with a basic aqueous solution, the chemical etching treatment being carried out either before or after the copper ion modifying step; and a drying step of drying the product obtained after the above steps at a temperature of 200° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Hosogi
  • Patent number: 9028726
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sputtering target suitable for producing an amorphous transparent conductive film which can be formed without heating a substrate and without feeding water during the sputtering; which is easily crystallized by low-temperature annealing; and which has low resistivity after the crystallization. An oxide sintered compact containing an indium oxide as a main component, while containing tin as a first additive element, and one or more elements selected from germanium, nickel, manganese, and aluminum as a second additive element, with the content of tin which is the first additive element being 2-15 atom % relative to the total content of indium and tin, and the total content of the second additive element being 0.1-2 atom % relative to the total content of indium, tin and the second additive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Masakatsu Ikisawa, Masataka Yahagi
  • Publication number: 20150114181
    Abstract: A method for allowing production of high-purity perrhenic acid from crude rhenium sulfide by applying a dry process is provided. A method for producing an aqueous solution of perrhenic acid includes 1) a step for roasting rhenium sulfide under an oxygen-containing gas to collect gasified rhenium oxide; 2) a step for cooling and solidifying the gasified rhenium oxide while keeping sulfur oxide entrained in the gasified rhenium oxide a gaseous state, and subsequently performing solid-gas separation, thereby improving purity of rhenium oxide; and 3) a step for dissolving the solidified rhenium oxide into water, or heating and gasifying the solidified rhenium oxide and then dissolving the gasified rhenium oxide into water, to obtain the aqueous solution of perrhenic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikunobu Sumida, Yuji Kawano, Makoto Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150107414
    Abstract: A method allowing production of high-purity perrhenic acid from rhenium sulfide by applying pyrometallurgical process is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: PAN PACIFIC COPPER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikunobu Sumida, Yuji Kawano, Makoto Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150110709
    Abstract: A method for producing a nanoparticle to separate a diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment includes separating an ?-type diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment nanoparticle having high crystallinity by carrying out separation of the diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment and crystal type transformation to the ?-type with substantially a single step. The ?-type diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment nanoparticle is separated by mixing a diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment solution having the diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment dissolved in a solvent and an alcohol solvent containing an alcohol compound solvent in a thin film fluid formed between at least two processing surfaces 1 and 2 arranged to be opposite to each other so as to be able to approach to and separate from each other, at least one of which rotates relative to the other. An acidic substance is contained in at least any one of the diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment solution and the alcohol solvent at this moment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: M. Technique Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu ENOMURA
  • Patent number: 9011810
    Abstract: An electrode material obtained using a polyol process and a synthesis method is provided. The synthesis method includes steps of preparing a mixed solution by mixing a transition metal compound, a polyacid anionic compound and a lithium compound with a polyol solvent; and obtaining a resultant product by reacting the mixed solution in a heating apparatus. There is an advantage in that the electrode material, which has crystallinity due to a structure such as an olivine structure or a nasicon structure, can be synthesized using a polyol process at a low temperature without performing a heat treatment proces. The nanoelectrode material synthesized by the method has a high crystallinity, uniform particles, and a structure having a diameter ranging from several nanometers to several micrometers. Further, the electrode material has a high electrochemical stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Industry Foundation of Chonnam National University
    Inventors: Jae Kook Kim, Dong Han Kim, Tae Ryang Kim
  • Patent number: 9011713
    Abstract: Provided are a composite including a lithium titanium oxide and a bismuth titanium oxide, a method of manufacturing the composite, an anode active material including the composite, an anode including the anode active material, and a lithium secondary battery having improved cell performance by including the anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-sang Song, Kyu-sung Park, Gue-sung Kim, Young-min Choi
  • Patent number: 9005568
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for production of powder of perovskite compound which comprises: the first step for obtaining an aggregate of perovskite compound which comprises at least one A group element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and Pb and at least one B group element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf and Sn, and which is represented by the general formula ABO3 wherein A is at least one A group element and B is at least one B group element; and the second step for heating the aggregate of perovskite compound obtained in the first step in a solvent at a temperature in a range from 30° C. to 500° C. whereby disintegrating the aggregate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Shikida, Shinji Ogama, Yoshiaki Ikeda, Kazuhisa Hidaka
  • Patent number: 9005486
    Abstract: Perovskite materials of the general formula SrCeO3 and BaCeO3 are provided having improved conductivity while maintaining an original ratio of chemical constituents, by altering the microstructure of the material. A process of making Pervoskite materials is also provided in which wet chemical techniques are used to fabricate nanocrystalline ceramic materials which have improved grain size and allow lower temperature densification than is obtainable with conventional solid-state reaction processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, University of South Carolina
    Inventors: Kyle S. Brinkman, Paul S. Korinko, Elise B. Fox, Frank Chen
  • Patent number: 8992794
    Abstract: A method for preparing a layered oxide cathode using a two step calcination procedure, wherein the first step includes pre-calcination utilizing a rotary calciner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan Petrovic, Anthony Thurston, Stephen Sheargold
  • Patent number: 8986895
    Abstract: An all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery containing a novel garnet-type oxide serving as a solid electrolyte. The garnet-type lithium ion-conducting oxide is one represented by the formula Li5+XLa3(ZrX, A2-X)O12, wherein A is at least one selected from the group consisting of Sc, Ti, V, Y, Nb, Hf, Ta, Al, Si, Ga, Ge, and Sn and X satisfies the inequality 1.4?X<2, or is one obtained by substituting an element having an ionic radius different from that of Zr for Zr sites in an garnet-type lithium ion-conducting oxide represented by the formula Li7La3Zr2O12, wherein the normalized intensity of an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern with a diffraction peak, as normalized on the basis of the intensity of a diffraction peak, is 9.2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho
    Inventors: Shingo Ohta, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Takahiko Asaoka, Mitsuru Asai
  • Publication number: 20150075603
    Abstract: A coating is described. The coating includes a metal oxide layer, which in turn includes a surface having a water contact angle greater than 90 degrees. A metal-oxide coating composition is also described. The composition includes effective amounts of a first type and a second of metals and an effective amount of oxygen to react with the first type and the second type of metals to produce a first type and a second type of metal oxides, both of which produce a structure that is greater than about 50% (by volume) amorphous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Allen George, Ching-Lin Chang, Ravi Prasad
  • Patent number: 8979974
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for collecting a metal component from a metal component-containing material, the composition containing a compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of lanthanoid elements and elements in group 2 of the periodic table, and a compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of elements in groups 3, 4, 12, and 13 of the periodic table and transition metal elements in the 4th period of the periodic table. The present invention further provides a method for collecting a metal component using this composition. With the use of the composition of the present invention, a metal component can be easily and efficiently collected from a material containing a highly useful metal component such as noble or rare metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Nomura, Hiroyuki Kageyama, Masakazu Date, Tadahiro Fujitani
  • Patent number: 8974764
    Abstract: A composition is described that includes a perovskite of the formula LaMO3, where M is at least one element selected from among iron, aluminum or manganese, in the form of particles dispersed on an alumina or aluminum oxyhydroxide substrate, wherein after calcination at 700° C. for 4 hours, the perovskite is in the form of a pure crystallographic phase, and in that the size of the perovskite particles does not exceed 15 nm. The described composition can be used in the field of catalysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Rhodia Operations
    Inventors: Simon Ifrah, Olivier Larcher, Rui Jorge Coelho Marques, Michael Lallemand, Julien Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20150048280
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a nanostructured metal oxide calcinate suitable for biosensor through a procedure of redox reaction is disclosed in this invention. The nanostructured metal oxide calcinate is free of impurities and produced with better electrocatalytic activity and better conductivity. Thus, an electrode of biosensor can be modified via the nanostructured metal oxide calcinate. The method for manufacturing the nanostructured metal oxide calcinate includes: disposing a first metal material and a second metal material into a reaction slot and making the first metal material and the second metal material dissolved within a solvent to form a mixture, wherein the pH value of the mixture ranges between 0 to 7, the mixture performs a redox reaction process for obtaining a metal oxide material; and eventually calcining the metal oxide material for obtaining a nanostructured metal oxide calcinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chun-Hu Chen, Cheng-Chi Kuo, Wen-Jie Lan
  • Patent number: 8951496
    Abstract: Feed material comprising uniform solution precursor droplets is processed in a uniform melt state using microwave generated plasma. The plasma torch employed is capable of generating laminar gas flows and providing a uniform temperature profile within the plasma. Plasma exhaust products are quenched at high rates to yield amorphous products. Products of this process include spherical, highly porous and amorphous oxide ceramic particles such as magnesia-yttria (MgO—Y2O3). The present invention can also be used to produce amorphous non oxide ceramic particles comprised of Boron, Carbon, and Nitrogen which can be subsequently consolidated into super hard materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Amastan Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Kamal Hadidi, Makhlouf Redjdal
  • Patent number: 8941002
    Abstract: Provided are an oxide tablet for vapor deposition (oxide evaporation material), and a vapor-deposited thin film and a solar cell formed using the same. The tablet comprises a sintered body which contains indium oxide as a main component and cerium and which is subjected to no surface grinding after sintering, in which CompS/CompA=0.9 to 1.1, where the content of cerium in a surface layer to a depth of 5 ?m from a surface of the sintered body is represented by a Ce/In atomic ratio (CompS), and an average value of the content of cerium in the entire sintered body is represented by a Ce/In atomic ratio (CompA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Abe, Riichiro Wake, Masakazu Kuwahara, Kentaro Sogabe, Azusa Oshiro, Hisaki Yada
  • Publication number: 20150021485
    Abstract: A solid scintillator in an embodiment includes a polycrystal body of an oxide having a garnet structure. In the solid scintillator, a linear transmittance at a wavelength of 680 nm is 10% or more. The oxide constituting the solid scintillator has a composition represented by, for Example, General formula: (Gd1??????Tb?Lu?Ce?)3(Al1?xGax)aOb, wherein 0<??0.55, 0<??0.55, 0.0001???0.1, ?+?+?<1, 0<x<1, 4.8?a?5.2, 11.6?b?12.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Yukihiro FUKUTA, Takao SAWA
  • Publication number: 20150014591
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a pyrochlore comprising, obtaining a solution comprising a solvent and a metal precursor or salt thereof capable of forming a pyrochlore, wherein the metal precursor or salt thereof is dissolved in the solvent, subjecting the solution to a drying step to obtain a non-gelled or non-polymerized pyrochlore precursor material in powdered form, and subjecting the pyrochlore precursor material to a calcination step to obtain a pyrochlore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Lawrence D'SOUZA, Vinu VISWANATH
  • Publication number: 20150010456
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing producing processes for garnet precursor microparticles (a precursor for microparticles of garnet structure) and microparticles of garnet structure. One of the processing processes comprises mixing ions of at least two elements with a basic substances that contain the at least two elements. The thin-film fluid is formed between at least two processing surfaces which are approachably and separably arranged facing each other with at least one of the processing surfaces rotating relative to the other. In the processing process, the precipitated microparticles are garnet precursor microparticles, and the molar ratio between the at least two elements in the garnet precursor microparticles is regulated by controlling the pH of the thin-film fluid after the mixing. Microparticles of garnet structure can be obtained by subjecting the garnet precursor microparticles to heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Jun Kuraki, Masakazu Enomura
  • Patent number: 8921255
    Abstract: Disclosed are a silicon-containing cerium composite oxide which is capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even used in a high temperature environment, and which has excellent heat resistance and reducibility, as well as a method for producing the composite oxide and a catalyst for exhaust gas purification employing the composite oxide. The composite oxide contains 2 to 20 mass % silicon in terms of SiO2, has properties of exhibiting a specific surface area of not less than 40 m2/g as measured by the BET method after calcination at 1000° C. for 5 hours, and a reducibility of not lower than 30% as calculated from measurement of temperature-programmed reduction from 50° C. to 900° C. after calcination at 1000° C. for 5 hours, and is suitable for a co-catalyst for a catalyst for exhaust gas purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Anan Kasei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotaka Ohtake, Kazuhiko Yokota
  • Publication number: 20140363365
    Abstract: A method for the rapid and continuous production of crystalline mixed-metal oxides from a precursor solution comprised of a polymerizing agent, chelated metal ions, and a solvent. The method discharges solution droplets of less than 500 ?m diameter using an atomizing or spray-type process into a reactor having multiple temperature zones. Rapid evaporation occurs in a first zone, followed by mixed-metal organic foam formation in a second zone, followed by amorphous and partially crystalline oxide precursor formation in a third zone, followed by formation of the substantially crystalline mixed-metal oxide in a fourth zone. The method operates in a continuous rather than batch manner and the use of small droplets as the starting material for the temperature-based process allows relatively high temperature processing. In a particular embodiment, the first zone operates at 100-300° C., the second zone operates at 300-700° C., and the third operates at 700-1000° C., and fourth zone operates at at least 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: David A. Berry, Daniel J. Haynes, Dushyant Shekhawat, Mark W. Smith
  • Publication number: 20140361210
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention relates to: a heat ray shielding adhesive which is used in bonding to a windowpane and the like and shields neat rays; a heat ray shielding transparent adhesive sheet; and a method for producing the heat ray shielding adhesive. The present invention provides a heat ray shielding transparent adhesive sheet which has nigh transmittance in the visible light region, low haze and more excellent transparency. [Solution] Transparency and heat ray shielding properties can be imparted in a simpler manner by using a heat ray shielding adhesive composition which contains fine heat ray shielding particles that have a half-value width of the first main peak of from. 0.01° to 0.80° (inclusive) as determined by X-ray diffraction pattern, and a heat ray shielding transparent adhesive sheet is therefore able to be produced at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chihiro Takahashi, Hideomi Sakai, Yukihiro Hara, Michiharu Arifuku
  • Publication number: 20140326918
    Abstract: A system and method thereof are provided for multi-stage processing of one more precursor compounds into a battery material. The system includes a mist generator, a drying chamber, one or more gas-solid separators, and one or more in-line reaction modules comprised of one or more gas-solid feeders, one or more gas-solid separators, and one or more reactors. Various gas-solid mixtures are formed within the internal plenums of the drying chamber, the gas-solid feeders, and the reactors. In addition, heated air or gas is served as the energy source within the processing system and as the gas source for forming the gas-solid mixtures to facilitate reaction rate and uniformity of the reactions therein. Precursor compounds are continuously delivered into the processing system and processed in-line through the internal plenums of the drying chamber and the reaction modules into final reaction particles useful as a battery material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventor: LIang-Yuh Chen