Disclosed herein are embodiments of doped and undoped spherical or spheroidal lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO) powder products, and methods of production using microwave plasma processing, which can be incorporated into solid state lithium ion batteries. Advantageously, embodiments of the disclosed LLZO powder display a high quality, high purity stoichiometry, small particle size, narrow size distribution, spherical morphology, and customizable crystalline structure.

A semiconductor nanoparticle, a production method thereof, and an electroluminescent device including the same. The production method includes: combining a magnesium precursor and an additive with a chalcogen precursor in a reaction medium including an organic solvent and an organic ligand; heating the reaction medium to a reaction temperature; and reacting the magnesium precursor and the chalcogen precursor in the presence of the additive to form a magnesium chalcogenide, wherein the semiconductor nanoparticle comprises the magnesium chalcogenide, wherein the magnesium chalcogenide comprises magnesium; and selenium, sulfur, or a combination thereof, and wherein the additive includes a hydride compound including an alkali metal, calcium, barium, aluminum, or a combination thereof.

The present invention relates to a method for producing a silica aerogel blanket and an apparatus for producing the same, which are capable of easily controlling the physical properties of a silica aerogel blanket by separately injecting silica sol and a gelation catalyst to control gelation time, improving aerogel pore structure to be uniform and improving thermal insulation performance by sufficiently and uniformly impregnating the silica and the gelation catalyst into a blanket, reducing the loss of silica sol and gelation catalyst by allowing the silica sol and the gelation catalyst to pass on an ascending slope before gelation to remove any excessive silica sol and gelation catalyst exceeding an appropriate impregnation amount, and providing a silica aerogel blanket having less process trouble, and less dust.

A tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride having a chemical purity of greater than 99.95%. The tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride has a fraction of compounds selected from WCl.sub.6, WO.sub.2Cl.sub.2, WO.sub.3 and WO.sub.2, as defined as a ratio of a reflection having a highest intensity of one of WCl.sub.6, WO.sub.2Cl.sub.2, WO.sub.3 and WO.sub.2, (I(P2)100) in an x-ray diffraction pattern to a reflection having a highest intensity of the tungsten(VI) oxytetrachloride (I(WOCl.sub.4)100) in the x-ray diffraction pattern, expressed as I(P2)100/I(WOCl.sub.4)100, of less than 0.03.

Preparation of two-dimensional indium selenide, other two-dimensional materials and related compositions via surfactant-free deoxygenated co-solvent systems.

The purpose of the present technology is to provide an electrode for power storage device and a power storage device that make it possible to involve more lithium ions in a charge-discharge reaction. A lithium-ion secondary battery has: a positive electrode current collector; a positive electrode active material layer on the positive electrode current collector; a negative electrode current collector; and a negative electrode active material layer on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer has a carbon nanowall. The carbon nanowall is capable of involving, in the charge-discharge reaction, two or more lithium ions per carbon atom in a single charge or discharge.

Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) having a second scintillating material, and in some embodiments an enhanced 10B content, may be used for efficient thermal neutron detection. The second scintillating material may be a crystal coating on the nanotubes, and/or crystal dispersed within the BNNT material. Crystal-coated BNNT materials enable detecting thermal neutrons by detecting light from the decay products of the thermal neutron’s absorption on the 10B atoms in the BNNT material, as the resultant decay products pass through the crystal-coating. Embodiments of thermal neutron detectors are described. Methods for preparing BNNTs with a second scintillating material are also described.

Methods and reactors for electrochemically expanding a parent material and expanded parent materials are described. Current methods of expanding parent materials incompletely-expand parent material, requiring expensive and time-consuming separation of expanded parent material from unexpanded parent materials. This problem is addressed by the methods and reactor for electrochemically expanding a parent material described herein, which during operation maintain electrical connectivity between the parent material and an electrical power source. The resulting materials described herein have a greater proportion of expanded parent material relative to unexpanded parent material compared to those made according to others methods.

The present invention provides for a process for synthesis of carbon beads comprising sub-micron size, micron size or milli size. The process enables modulation of the viscous slurry for synthesis of the carbon beads with improved physico-chemical properties. The process enhances ability of the carbon beads to withstand extreme pH and high temperatures. The present invention also provides a composition for synthesis of the carbon beads. The present invention also provides a microfluidic droplet generator for synthesizing the carbon beads. The carbon beads synthesized by the present invention are applicable in separation, filtration, purification, wires and cables, electrodes, sensor, composite and additive manufacturing, pharmaceutical delivery applications.

A carbon nanotube assembled wire includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes, wherein in a Raman spectrum of the carbon nanotube assembled wire, a ratio IB/IA of an integrated intensity IA in a range of a Raman shift of 120 cm.sup.−1 or more and 210 cm.sup.−1 or less and an integrated intensity IB in a range of a Raman shift of more than 210 cm.sup.−1 and 280 cm.sup.−1 or less is 0.1 or more.