US Patent Issued to Aspen Aerogels on Aug. 5 for "Fibrous carbon aerogels coated with nano-thin silicon as lithium battery anodes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,221, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Aspen Aerogels Inc. (Northborough, Mass.).

"Fibrous carbon aerogels coated with nano-thin silicon as lithium battery anodes" was invented by Roxana Trifu (Worcester, Mass.), Nicholas Leventis (Worcester, Mass.) and Redouane Begag (Hudson, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to silica-carbon composite materials including a low bulk density carbon material having a skeletal framework of carbon nanofibers, the skeletal framework forming a pore structure comprising an array of interconnected pores. The silica-carbon composite materials further include a conformal c...