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  • This invention is a method of plastic waste upcycling using multi-metallic nanoparticles as catalysts.
    Intellectual Property Available to License

    ANL researchers have performed high-throughput screening to identify multi-metallic combinations that can function effectively as nanoparticle catalysts for plastic waste upcycling processes.

  • The inventions offer the potential of high-power lasers to deliver enhanced performance in precise drilling, sawing, cutting, or otherwise shaping, such as carving or sculpting, of rocks and composite structures of steel casing, cement and rocks.
    Intellectual Property Available to License
    US Patent 7,487,834
    • Methods of using a laser to perforate composite structures of steel casing, cement and rocks
    US patent 7,416,258
    • Methods of using a laser to spall and drill holes in rocks

    Apparatus and methods of using lasers are provided for spalling and drilling holes into rocks. A rock removal process is provided that utilizes a combination of laser-induced thermal stress and laser induced superheated steam explosions just below the surface of the laser/rock interaction to spall the rock into small fragments that can then be easily removed by a purging flow. Single laser beams of given irradiance spall rock and create holes having diameter and depth approximately equal to the beam spot size. A group of the single laser beams are steered in a controllable manner by an electro-optic laser beam switch to locations on the surface of the rock, creating multiple overlapping spalled holes thereby removing a layer of rock of a desired diameter. Drilling of a deep hole is achieved by spalling consecutive layers with an intermittent feed motion of the laser head perpendicular to the rock surface.

  • Nature-based Solutions for Community Resilience

    Natural disasters are increasing, not only in frequency but also their scope of impact. As climate and weather continue to change, these events are expected to intensify, adversely affecting both people and the environment.
  • Argonne has developed a suite of technologies to enable sodium-ion batteries, including both anode and cathode materials.
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    Argonne’s sodium-ion cathode technologies:
    Electrode materials for sodium batteries
    • ANL-IN-10-056 - Electrode materials for sodium batteries
    Sodium chalcogenide electrodes for sodium batteries
    • ANL-IN-12-082 - Sodium chalcogenide electrodes for sodium batteries
    Hollow nanoparticle cathode materials for sodium electrochemical cells and batteries
    • ANL-IN-13-024 - Hollow nanoparticle cathode materials for sodium electrochemical cells and batteries
    High performance layered cathode materials for high voltage sodium-ion batteries
    • ANL-IN-16-069 - High performance layered cathode materials for high voltage sodium-ion batteries
    Argonne’s sodium-ion anode technologies:
    Lead-lead oxide-carbon nanocomposite for energy storage cells and method of preparation
    • ANL-IN-19-101 - Lead-lead oxide-carbon nanocomposite for energy storage cells and method of preparation
    Composite anodes for sodium-ion batteries
    • ANL-IN-19-160 - Composite anodes for sodium-ion batteries

    Technology Overview & Benefits

    Sodium-ion batteries are an emerging commercial alternative to lithium-ion batteries for stationary storage and transportation applications due to the greater abundance and lower cost of sodium as well as their performance advantages at low temperatures.

    Applications and Industries

    Electrodes for use in Sodium-ion batteries for:

    • Stationary energy storage systems
    • Electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles