A composition for forming a heating element; a dried and sintered product thereof; and a method of preparing the composition for forming a heating element, the composition including a matrix particle, a composite filler, and a solvent, wherein the composite filler includes a core and a coating layer disposed on the core, the core includes a nanosheet filler, and the composition has a pH in a range of about 5 to about 9.

A composition for forming a heating element; a dried and sintered product thereof; and a method of preparing the composition for forming a heating element, the composition including a matrix particle, a composite filler, and a solvent, wherein the composite filler includes a core and a coating layer disposed on the core, the core includes a nanosheet filler, and the composition has a pH in a range of about 5 to about 9.

Provided are a solid electrolyte composition including an inorganic solid electrolyte (A) having conductivity of an ion of a metal belonging to Group I or II of a periodic table, a dispersion medium (B) having a Log P value of 1.2 or less, and a dispersion medium (C) having a Log P value of 2 or more, in which a mass ratio (C)/(B) of the dispersion medium (C) to the dispersion medium (B) is 100,000(C)/(B)10, a solid electrolyte-containing sheet, an all-solid state secondary battery, and methods for manufacturing a solid electrolyte-containing sheet and an all-solid state secondary battery.

Methods and systems for rapidly characterizing electrochemically active particle dispersions are provided. In various embodiments, the methods and systems advantageously reduce the system complexity to identify what fraction of a cell resistance may be due to the active material.

Methods and systems for rapidly characterizing electrochemically active particle dispersions are provided. In various embodiments, the methods and systems advantageously reduce the system complexity to identify what fraction of a cell resistance may be due to the active material.

A method of forming a bulk product includes the step of coating a particulate conductive phase material with a binder phase, and forming the coated conductive phase material into at least one of sheet stock, tape formed into a bulk material. A method of forming a bulk product includes the step of coating a particulate conductive phase material with a binder phase and forming the coated conductive phase material into a bulk material. The conductive phase material includes at least one of two dimensional materials, single layer materials, carbon nanotubes, boron nitride nanotubes, aluminum nitride and molybdenum disulphide (MoS.sub.2). A component is also disclosed.

A solid electrolyte material comprises a crystal structure including a structure framework and an ion-conductive species. The structure framework has a one-dimensional chain. In the one-dimensional chain, a plurality of polyhedrons are linearly connected to each other while sharing a corner, and each of the plurality of polyhedrons contains at least one type of cation and at least one type of anion.

A method for preparing a transition-metal adamantane carboxylate salt is presented. The method includes mixing a transition-metal hydroxide and a diamondoid compound having at least one carboxylic acid moiety to form a reactant mixture, where M is a transition metal. Further, the method includes hydrothermally treating the reactant mixture at a reaction temperature for a reaction time to form the transition-metal adamantane carboxylate salt.

A method for preparing a transition-metal adamantane carboxylate salt is presented. The method includes mixing a transition-metal hydroxide and a diamondoid compound having at least one carboxylic acid moiety to form a reactant mixture, where M is a transition metal. Further, the method includes hydrothermally treating the reactant mixture at a reaction temperature for a reaction time to form the transition-metal adamantane carboxylate salt.

An electrically anisotropic pressure sensitive assembly comprises a contained quantity of electrically conductive particles including first electrically conductive particles, which first electrically conductive particles are magnetite particles, wherein the quantity of magnetite particles includes a distribution of particle sizes between sub-micron and tens of microns. The magnetite particles have a plurality of planar faces, adjacent planar faces connected at a vertex, the particles each having a plurality of vertices wherein the magnetite particles are irregular in shape. The resistance and/or capacitance of the electrically conductive assembly changes in accordance with the pressure exerted thereon. The assembly includes at least two electrically conductive elements, the quantity of electrically conductive particles being contained in interstices between the at least two electrically conductive elements.