US Patent Issued to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA on July 1 for "Stable hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst based on 3D metal nanostructures on a Ti substrate" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,946, issued on July 1, was assigned to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy).

"Stable hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst based on 3D metal nanostructures on a Ti substrate" was invented by Dipak Vijaykumar Shinde (Genoa, Italy), Liberato Manna (Genoa, Italy) and Luca De Trizio (Bergamo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electrocatalyst comprising a Ti substrate coated with a 3D Cu nanostructured matrix decorated with a mixture of amorphous TiO2 and nanoparticles of a noble metal, preferably Pt nanoparticles, an electrochemical cell comprising said electrocatalyst and their use...