US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy on Dec. 2 for "Compositions for energy conversion and storage and methods of making the same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,131, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Compositions for energy conversion and storage and methods of making the same" was invented by Saheed Abidemi Bukola (Longmont, Colo.) and Bryan Scott Pivovar (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a first layer that includes a polymer having a repeat unit with a structure that includeswhere m is between 2 and 100, inclusively, the repeat unit is protonated at at least one of position A) and/or B) and/or sulfonated at at least one of rings 1) and/or 2), R1 includes at least o...