Increasing electrode thickness is one route to improve the energy density of lithium-ion battery cells. However, restricted Li + transport in electrolyte phase through porous microstructure thick electrodes limits ability achieve high current densities and rates charge/discharge with these In this work, processing routes mitigate restrictions were pursued. The used comprised only active materia...

New applications such as hybrid electric vehicles and power backup require rechargeable batteries that combine high energy density with high charge and discharge rate capability. Using ab initio computational modeling, we identified useful strategies to design higher rate battery electrodes and tested them on lithium nickel manganese oxide [Li(Ni(0.5)Mn(0.5))O2], a safe, inexpensive material th...

The 30-year experience from the Software Measurement field explains that a strong resistance usually comes from project team members, supposing the real objective is a personal evaluation on their performance and not a neutral measurement for a concrete process improvement. Concurrently, from the middle ‘80s a series of SPI models such as the Software Capability Maturity Model (Sw-CMM) and nowa...