US 11,757,087 B2
Lithium ion battery electrode
Xiao-Dong Zhou, Irmo, SC (US); Kuber Mishra, Columbia, SC (US); and Fu-Sheng Ke, Wuhan (CN)
Assigned to University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (US)
Filed by UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Columbia, SC (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/166,076.
Application 17/166,076 is a division of application No. 14/635,212, filed on Mar. 2, 2015, granted, now 10,944,101.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/966,742, filed on Feb. 28, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0184203 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 4/1395 (2010.01); H01M 4/38 (2006.01); H01M 4/134 (2010.01); H01M 4/62 (2006.01); H01M 4/02 (2006.01); B82Y 30/00 (2011.01)
CPC H01M 4/1395 (2013.01) [H01M 4/134 (2013.01); H01M 4/38 (2013.01); H01M 4/622 (2013.01); B82Y 30/00 (2013.01); H01M 4/625 (2013.01); H01M 2004/021 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrode, comprising a plurality of porous microparticles, the porous microparticles having an average size of 2.5 μm to 10 μm, the electrode also including an organic binder and a carbon source, each porous microparticle comprising a plurality of Ge grains bonded to one another, each of the Ge grains comprising cubic Ge, each porous microparticle defining nanopores between individual Ge grains of the plurality of Ge grains.