US Patent Issued to Cabot on Aug. 19 for "Compositions containing conductive additives, related electrodes and related batteries" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,798, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Cabot Corp. (Boston).

"Compositions containing conductive additives, related electrodes and related batteries" was invented by Feng Feng (Troy, Mich.), Aurelien DuPasquier (Westford, Mass.), Miodrag Oljaca (Concord, Mass.), Qi Lu (Shanghai), Olha Mashtalir (N. Billerica, Mass.) and Kavita K. Pai (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode includes an electrode composition having carbon nanotubes; carbon black particles having a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area greater than 90 m2/g, and an oil adsorption number (OAN) greater than 150 mL/100g, wherein the ratio of the carbo...