US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy on June 17 for "Compositions and methods for modifying perovskite surfaces" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,279, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Compositions and methods for modifying perovskite surfaces" was invented by Kai Zhu (Littleton, Colo.) and Fei Zhang (Tianjin, China).

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 perovskite and a second layer that includes a perovskitoid, where the perovskite has a first crystalline structure defined by ABX3, the perovskitoid has a second crystalline structure defined by A'B2X6, where A is a first cation, B is a second cation, X is an anion, and A' is a third cation...