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Patent US7960058 - Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries - Google Patents
The invention relates to materials for use as electrodes in an alkali-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery, particularly a lithium-ion battery. The invention provides transition-metal compounds having the ordered-olivineor the rhombohedral NASICON structure and the polyanion (PO4)3− as at least one...http://www.google.com/patents/US7960058?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7960058 - Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
Publication number US7960058 B2
Application number US 12/877,838
Also published as US6514640, US7955733, US7964308, US7972728, US7998617, US8067117, US8282691, US8785043, US9362562, US20030082454, US20050003274, US20050244321, US20070117019, US20070166618, US20070281215, US20100310935, US20100314577, US20100314589, US20100316909, US20110006256, US20110006270, US20110017959, US20110039158, US20110068297, US20120039784, US20130029223, US20140308192, US20160093889, US20160254530
Publication number 12877838, 877838, US 7960058 B2, US 7960058B2, US-B2-7960058, US7960058 B2, US7960058B2
Inventors John B. Goodenough, Akshaya K. Padhi, Kirakoda S. Nanjundaswamy, Christian Masquelier
Patent Citations (70), Non-Patent Citations (400), Referenced by (3), Classifications (41), Legal Events (6)
US 7960058 B2
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U.S. Classification 429/218.1, 429/221
International Classification H01M4/13, C01B25/45, H01M4/58, H01M4/136, H01M4/48, H01M4/485, H01M4/505, H01M4/02, H01M4/52, H01M4/583, H01M10/052, H01M10/36, H01M4/525, H01M10/0525, H01M4/50
Cooperative Classification H01M2300/0068, H01M4/1397, H01M4/049, H01M4/136, H01M4/5825, H01M4/625, G02F1/155, H01M4/622, H01M2004/028, H01M10/0525, Y10T29/49108, C01B25/45, H01M10/052, H01M4/485, H01M4/583, H01M4/505, H01M4/525
European Classification C01B25/45, H01M4/58D, H01M4/485, H01M10/0525, H01M4/525, H01M4/136, H01M4/505