US Patent Issued to GRANODE MATERIALS on Jan. 13 for "Silicon-nanographite aerogel-based anodes for batteries" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,609, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GRANODE MATERIALS AB (Sundsvall, Sweden).

"Silicon-nanographite aerogel-based anodes for batteries" was invented by Manisha Phadatare (Sundsvall, Sweden), Rohan Patil (Sundsvall, Sweden) and Hakan Olin (Sundsvall, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a silicon-nanographite aerogel for use as an anode in a battery, such as a lithium ion battery, comprising a matrix of nanographite flakes consisting of a mixture of graphene, multilayer graphene and graphite nanoplatelets, and silicon nanoparticles having a diameter between 1 nm and 100 nm, whereby the aerogel has...