US Patent Issued to HAZER GROUP on July 15 for "Process of controlling the morphology of graphite" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,973, issued on July 15, was assigned to HAZER GROUP LTD. (Australia).

"Process of controlling the morphology of graphite" was invented by Andrew Cornejo (Winthrop, Australia), Hui Tong Chua (Mount Claremont, Australia) and Haibo Lu (Willetton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of controlling the morphology of graphite in a process for the production of graphite, the process comprising: contacting at elevated temperature, a metal-containing catalyst with a hydrocarbon gas to catalytically convert at least a portion of the hydrocarbon gas to hydrogen and carbon; wherein the temperature is between 600deg C. and 1000deg ...