Patent ID: 11870052
Assignee: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of forming a solid-state battery, comprising:
cooling a granular form of a lithium-ion transport medium below a glass transition temperature T_g of a conductive polymer included in the lithium-ion transport medium for imparting a brittle granular texture to the cooled, granular form of the lithium-ion transport medium;
forming agglomerates including a conductive medium, the lithium-ion transport medium and an active charge material, the agglomerates including particles of evenly dispersed powders of the conductive medium and the active charge material bonded by the lithium-ion transport medium;
propelling the agglomerates at a predetermined temperature and a predetermined pressure to form sprayed agglomerates, the predetermined temperature based on the glass transition temperature of the conductive polymer included in the lithium-ion transport medium, and the predetermined pressure based on deformation of the sprayed agglomerates upon impact at the predetermined temperature; and
accumulating the sprayed agglomerates for deforming the sprayed agglomerates responsive to an impact against a collection surface and forming a layered structure for an active charge material layer of a battery based on multiple spraying iterations of the sprayed agglomerates for propelled deformation.