ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,220, issued on Aug. 5.

"Methods for preparing CoNi-S@3D-C nanocomposite and modified battery separator" was invented by Zhirong Wang (Nanjing, China), Yanan Wei (Nanjing, China) and Junling Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are methods for preparing a CoNi-S@3D-C nanocomposite and a modified battery separator. The CoNi-S@3D-C material synthesized by the method of the present invention is applicable not only to a lithium-ion battery but also to a sodium-ion battery. As the anode for both the lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, it exhibits good energy storage performance, maintainin...