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Nanoimprinted Carbon Electrodes For Li-ion Batteries. Daniel C. Ralph, Cornell University, ECCS - 0335765. Nanostructured C-electrodes.
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Nanoimprinted Carbon Electrodes For Li-ion Batteries Daniel C. Ralph, Cornell University, ECCS - 0335765 Nanostructured C-electrodes The goal of this research is to develop nano-architectured carbon electrodes. These carbon electrode structures can provide the benefit of increasing charge-discharge rates for Li-ion batteries, can be used as high capacity “supercapacitor” electrodes, and can be beneficial for high efficiency fuel cells. Nanoimprinting is being used to develop the structures from molds fabricated at the UCSB Nanofabrication Facility. Large area carbon electrode nano-architectured arrays have been fabricated with billions of pillars per square centimeter. The nanoimprinting technique is easily scalable to very large areas needed for production environments. SEM images show the density and sizes of the carbon electrode structures. 184nm 128nm Top View SEM Jayan Thomas and PalashGangopadhyay University of Arizona Work partially performed at UCSB Cross-Sectional View SEM Funding source: DesTech Investment Group