Nano-structures of Aluminum Nitride and a method of producing nano-structures of Aluminum Nitride from nut shells comprising milling agricultural nuts into a fine nut powder, milling nanocrystalline Al.sub.2O.sub.3 into a powder, mixing, pressing the fine nut powder and the powder of nanocrystalline Al.sub.2O.sub.3, heating the pellet, maintaining the temperature of the pellet at about 1400° C., cooling the pellet, eliminating the residual carbon, and forming nano-structures of AlN. An Aluminum Nitride (AlN) product made from the steps of preparing powders of agricultural nuts using ball milling, preparing powders of nanocrystalline Al.sub.2O.sub.3, mixing the powders of agricultural nuts and the powders of nanocrystalline Al.sub.2O.sub.3 forming a homogenous sample powder of agricultural nuts and Al.sub.2O.sub.3, pressurizing, pyrolyzing the disk, and reacting the disk and the nitrogen atmosphere and forming AlN.

A process may produce mixed oxides including lithium, zirconium, and optionally at least one other than Li and Zr metal, by flame spray pyrolysis. Mixed oxides are obtainable by such a process. Such mixed oxides may be used in lithium ion batteries.

A negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery, the material comprising: particles comprising a core, with the core containing silicon, the particles having one or more coating layers disposed around the core, at least one of the coating layers comprising a porous semi-conducting metal oxide.

A preparation method of a tetragonal NaV.sub.2O.sub.5.H.sub.2O nanosheet-like powder includes steps of: (Step 1) simultaneously adding NaVO.sub.3 and Na.sub.2S.9H.sub.2O into deionized water, and then magnetically stirring, and obtaining a black turbid solution; (Step 2) sealing after putting the black turbid solution into an inner lining of a reaction kettle, fixing the sealed inner lining in an outer lining of the reaction kettle, placing the reaction kettle into a homogeneous reactor, and then performing a hydrothermal reaction; and (Step 3) after completing the hydrothermal reaction, naturally cooling the reaction kettle to the room temperature, and then alternately cleaning through water and alcohol, and then collecting a product, drying the product, and finally obtaining the tetragonal NaV.sub.2O.sub.5.H.sub.2O nanosheet-like powder with a thickness in a range of 30-60 nm and a single crystal structure grown along a (002) crystal orientation.

The invention provides a method for producing sheet-like particles of zeolite that cannot be obtained by a top-down method, and provides sheet-like particles of zeolite having an 8-membered oxygen ring structure obtained by the method. A thickness of the sheet-like particles is 1 nm to 100 nm, and an aspect ratio (maximum width/thickness in particles) of the sheet-like particles is 100 or more.

The present invention discloses a preparation method of 2,6-diaminoanthraquinone bifunctional covalently grafted graphene as a negative material of a supercapacitor, which includes: first dispersing graphite oxide in deionized water; after stirring and ultrasonic treatment, reducing the graphite oxide into reduced graphene oxide by using a hydrazine hydrate, and vacuum drying at 40-80° C.; dispersing the reduced graphene oxide in a DMF solution with 2,6-diaminoanthraquinone, and stirring and performing the ultrasonic treatment again; at 60-90° C., adding isoamyl nitrite, and reacting for 18-24 h; and washing reaction products with ethanol and deionized water for multiple times, and finally freeze drying to obtain a product.

Disclosed herein are amine functionalized zeolites and methods for making amine functionalized zeolites. In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, an amine functionalized zeolite may include a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. The microporous framework may include at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The amine functionalized zeolite may further include a plurality of mesopores having diameters of greater than 2 nm and less than or equal to 50 nm and one or more of isolated terminal primary amine functionalities bonded to silicon atoms of the microporous framework or silazane functionalities, where the nitrogen atom of the silazane bridges two silicon atoms of the microporous framework.

Disclosed herein are modified zeolites and methods for making modified zeolites. In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, a modified zeolite may include a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. The microporous framework includes at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The modified zeolite may further include organometallic moieties each bonded to bridging oxygen atoms. The organometallic moieties include a hafnium atom. The hafnium atom is bonded to a bridging oxygen atom, and bridging oxygen atom bridges the hafnium atom of the organometallic moiety and a silicon atom of the microporous framework.

A lithium complex oxide and method of manufacturing the same, more particularly, a lithium complex oxide effective in improving the characteristics of capacity, resistance, and lifetime with reduced residual lithium and with different interplanar distances of crystalline structure between a primary particle locating in an internal part of secondary particle and a primary particle locating on the surface part of the secondary particle, and a method of preparing the same.

The present invention features a new way of doping layered cathode materials in lithium ion batteries. Using a .sup.“high entropy” doping strategy, more than four impurity elements can be introduced to the host materials. The present invention applies this high entropy doping strategy to a high nickel content layered oxide material and a lithium-manganese rich material. This new high entropy doping strategy allows the layered oxide materials used in the positive electrode of lithium ion battery to achieve high energy density, long life cycle and reduced reliance on the expensive and toxic cobalt, all of which are desired attributes for improving the performance of lithium ion batteries and reducing their cost.