An electrode material, its manufacturing method, and its use as a cathode material in batteries are provided. The electrode material comprises a plurality of nanoparticles, each having a diameter of approximately 100-400 nm and comprising a core and a shell encapsulating the core. The shell comprises carbon and nitrogen, respectively having a mass fraction of approximately 70-90% and approximately 5-20% relative to a total mass of the shell. The core comprises sulfur, having a mass fraction of approximately 40-97% relative to a total mass of the core. The core has a mass fraction of approximately 50-90% relative to a total mass of each nanoparticle. The electrode material can be used in a cathode of a Li—S battery, which has a good energy storage capacity, a high electrochemical stability, and a low capacity decay.

The present disclosure discloses a W-containing high-nickel ternary cathode material, including both spherical secondary particles and single-crystal particles. There is basically no W inside the single-crystal particles, and the spherical secondary particles are doped with W. A preparation method of the W-containing high-nickel ternary cathode material includes: mixing a nickel salt, a cobalt salt, and a manganese salt according to a specified molar ratio, and adding an ammonia solution and a sodium hydroxide solution for co-precipitation to prepare a precursor A; mixing a nickel salt, a cobalt salt, a manganese salt, and a tungsten salt, and adding an ammonia solution and a sodium hydroxide solution for co-precipitation to prepare a W-containing precursor B; and mixing the precursor A, the precursor B, a lithium source, and a doping element M-containing compound, and subjecting a resulting mixture to high-temperature sintering in an oxygen atmosphere to obtain the high-nickel ternary cathode material including both spherical secondary particles and single-crystal particles. While increasing the capacity, the spherical secondary particles in the product of the present disclosure can ensure that a crystal structure will not undergo obvious phase transition when lithium ions are deintercalated during a cycling process, which helps to improve the cycling performance.

A positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal oxide, which is in the form of a secondary particle formed by aggregation of primary particles and is represented by Formula 1, wherein the lithium transition metal oxide has a crystalline size of 160 nm or less and an average particle diameter of the primary particle of 0.6 μm or more. A preparation method thereof is also provided.

A radio wave absorber includes a base member, and a radio wave absorption film formed on the base member. The radio wave absorption film includes at least MTC-substituted ε-Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 and black titanium oxide. The MTC-substituted ε-Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 is a crystal belonging to the same space group as an ε-Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 crystal and expressed by ε-M.sub.xTi.sub.yCo.sub.yFe.sub.2−2y−xO.sub.3 where M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ga, In, Al, and Rh, 0<x<1, and 0<y<1.

According to this method, a fatty acid of CnH.sub.2nO.sub.2 (n=5 to 14) is mixed with a plurality of metal sources selected from Zn, In, Sn, Sb, and Al, thereby fatty acid metal salts are obtained, subsequently the fatty acid metal salts are heated at 130° C. to 250° C., and a metal soap that is a precursor is obtained. This precursor is heated at 200° C. to 350° C., and metal oxide primary particles are dispersed in the precursor melt. To this dispersion liquid, a washing solvent having a δP value higher by 5 to 12 than the δP value of the Hansen solubility parameter of the final dispersing solvent is added, thereby the metal oxide primary particles are washed and agglomerated, metal oxide secondary particles are obtained, and then washing is repeated.

A wavelength converting structure is disclosed, the wavelength converting structure including an SWIR phosphor material having emission wavelengths in the range of 1000 to 1700 nm, the SWIR phosphor material including at least one of a perovskite type phosphor doped with Ni.sup.2+, a perovskite type phosphor doped with Ni.sup.2+ and Cr.sup.3+, and a garnet type phosphor doped with Ni.sup.2+ and Cr.sup.3+.

A silver-doped, nano-porous hydroxyapatite material is provided that can be utilized to capture radioactive iodine, .sup.129I. Methods of using the silver-doped, nano-porous hydroxyapatite material to remove radioactive iodine, and methods of manufacturing the material are also provided.

A process for producing a material in the form of nanosheets by ball milling of crystals of the material, wherein the ball milling takes place in the presence of a reactive gas.

A light emitting diode (LED) assembly includes an LED light source having a first light output with a characteristic spectrum and at least one phosphor through which the first light output passes. The phosphor includes the quaternary compound M-Li—Al—O, where M is Ba, Sr, or Ca, activated by Eu.sup.2+ or Ce.sup.3+.

A process for producing a surface-modified particulate lithium nickel metal oxide material is provided. The process comprises the dry mixing lithium nickel metal oxide particles with at least one metal-containing compound using acoustic energy and then calcining the mixture at a temperature of less than or equal to 800 # C.