US Patent Issued to Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. on Feb. 11 for "Method of optimizing surface of carbon electrode for flow battery" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,469, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method of optimizing surface of carbon electrode for flow battery" was invented by Ning-Yih Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hung-Hsien Ku (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Han-Jou Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Qiao-Ya Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided to optimize the surface of a carbon electrode for flow battery. A reaction solution is prepared as containing a requested ratio of functional group. After spraying the reaction solution on the carbon electrode, a number of related pa...