US Patent Issued to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Preparation method and application of multifunctional interface layer modified composite zinc cathode based on zinc blende" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,926, issued on May 27, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (China).

"Preparation method and application of multifunctional interface layer modified composite zinc cathode based on zinc blende" was invented by Shangyong Lin (Changsha, China) and Shuang Zhou (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and application of a multifunctional interface layer modified composite zinc cathode based on zinc blende in zinc metal batteries. Zinc blende powder is produced by crushing and ball milling, then mixed with a solvent and wet screened. The fine zinc blende is dried and mixed with a surfactant to ...